The spread of a rumor or infection in a moving population

Annals of Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2402-2462

  Kesten, Harry ^a,b   Sidoravicius, Vladas ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b IMPA   (Brazil)

^c Inst de Matematica Para e Aplicada   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Interacting particle system; Large deviations for density of poisson system of random walks; Random walks; Spread of infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 29344439866     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117905000000413     Document Type: Article

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