Glauber dynamics on trees and hyperbolic graphs

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-340

  Berger, Noam ^a   Kenyon, Claire ^b   Mossel, Elchanan ^a   Peres, Yuval ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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EID: 18244404298     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00440-004-0369-4     Document Type: Article

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