Eigenfunction approach to the persistent random walk in two dimensions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 331, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 448-466

  Bracher, Christian ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eigenfunction expansion; Persistent random walk

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFUSION; INTEGRATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

RANDOM WALK;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 0242438690     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2003.07.003     Document Type: Article

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