Random Evolutions Are Driven by the Hyperparabolic Operators

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 828-846

  Kolesnik, Alexander D ^a   Pinsky, Mark A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Moldova)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Fundamental solution; Generalized function; Hyperparabolic operator; Kac's condition; Persistent random walk; Random evolution; Random flight; Telegraph equation; Telegraph process; Transport process

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951511430     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-011-0131-0     Document Type: Article

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