Survival of contact processes on the hierarchical group

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 529-563

  Athreya, Siva R ^a   Swart, Jan M ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Contact process; Coupling; Hierarchical group; Renormalization group; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951938848     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00440-009-0214-x     Document Type: Article

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