Asymptotics of rare events in birth-death processes bypassing the exact solutions

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Doering, Charles R ^a   Sargsyan, Khachik V ^a   Sander, Leonard M ^a   Vanden Eijnden, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; NEAR CONTINUUM ASYMPTOTICS; NEAR CONTINUUM EXPANSION;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947597442     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/19/6/065145     Document Type: Article

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