A toy model of the rat race

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Ben Avraham, D ^a   Majumdar, Satya N ^b   Redner, S ^c  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics (theory); Stochastic particle dynamics (theory)

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749105855     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2007/04/L04002     Document Type: Article

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