Hypersurfaces in R and D bld and the variance of exit times for brownian motion

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2453-2462

  Kinateder, Kimberly K J ^a,b   Mcdonald, Patrick ^a,b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SARASOTA MANATEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Exit times; Free boundary problems; Variance; Variational calculus

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744449417     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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