Travelling wave solutions to the K-P-P equation: Alternatives to Simon Harris' probabilistic analysis

Annales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-72

  Kyprianou, A E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bessel 3 processes; Branching Brownian motion; Brownian motion; K P P equation; Size biased measures; Spine decompositions; Travelling wave solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742289230     PISSN: 02460203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anihpb.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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