Crowding at the front of marathon packs

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2008, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Sabhapandit, Sanjib ^a   Majumdar, Satya N ^a   Redner, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Stochastic processes; Traffic and crowd dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 43149102728     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/03/L03001     Document Type: Article

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