A Renormalization Group Classification of Nonstationary and/or Infinite Second Moment Diffusive Processes

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 989-1000

  O'Malley, Daniel ^a   Cushman, John H ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous diffusion; Correlated increments; Nonstationary increments; Renormalization group; Scaling; Self similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857923278     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-012-0448-3     Document Type: Article

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