Moments of the first passage time under external driving

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 117, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 703-737

  Lindner, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

driven stochastic systems; First passage time

Indexed keywords

EID: 7244257797     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-004-2269-5     Document Type: Article

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