Stochastic factorizations, sandwiched simplices and the topology of the space of explanations

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 459, Issue 2039, 2003, Pages 2821-2845

  Mond, David ^a   Smith, Jim ^a   Van Straten, Duco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hidden variables; Morse theory; Stochastic matrices; Topology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GEOMETRY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORY;

EID: 1542407746     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1150     Document Type: Article

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