Generic modes of consensus formation in stochastic language dynamics

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Blythe, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Interacting agent models; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449140553     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/02/P02059     Document Type: Article

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