Spectral analysis of Sinai's walk for small eigenvalues

Annals of Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 198-254

  Bovier, Anton ^a,b,d   Faggionato, Alessandra ^b,c  

^a Weierstrass Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing; Disordered systems; Random dynamics; Spectral properties; Trap models

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849107182     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117907000000178     Document Type: Article

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