Analytic expression for the mean time to absorption for a random walker on the Sierpinski gasket

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Kozak, John J ^a   Balakrishnan, V ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECIMATION PROCESS; EUCLIDEAN LATTICES; MARKOVIAN RANDOM WALKERS; SIERPINSKI GASKET;

FRACTALS; GASKETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY;

ABSORPTION;

EID: 41349095853     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.021105     Document Type: Article

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