Reversals of chance in paradoxical games

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 371, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 641-648

  Amengual, P ^a   Meurs, P ^b   Cleuren, B ^b   Toral, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Brownian ratchet; Markov chain theory; Parrondo's paradox

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BROWNIAN RATCHET; CURRENT INVERSION; MARKOV CHAIN THEORY; PARRONDO'S PARADOX;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 33748712020     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.03.038     Document Type: Article

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