Persistence of activity in threshold contact processes, an "Annealed approximation" of random Boolean networks

Random Structures and Algorithms

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 228-246

  Chatterjee, Shirshendu ^a,b   Durrett, Rick ^a,b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulatory networks; Phase transition; Random Boolean networks; Random graphs; Threshold contact process

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960564788     PISSN: 10429832     EISSN: 10982418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rsa.20357     Document Type: Article

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