A numerical approach to large deviations in continuous time

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Lecomte, Vivien ^a,b   Tailleur, Julien ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c ESPCI   (France)

Author keywords

Current fluctuations; Fluctuations (theory); Other numerical approaches; Stochastic processes (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749101158     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2007/03/P03004     Document Type: Article

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