Lifetime of a target in the presence of N independent walkers

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 3399-3408

  Rojo, Félix ^a   Pury, Pedro A ^a   Budde, Carlos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Intermittent search; Passage time; Trapping by targets

Indexed keywords

BULK-LIMIT; CONTINUOUS SPACES; DIFFUSING PARTICLES; INTERMITTENT MOTION; INTERMITTENT SEARCH; PASSAGE TIME; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES;

PHYSICS;

EID: 77953685296     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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