Brunet-derrida particle systems, free boundary problems and wiener-hopf equations

Annals of Probability

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2043-2078

  Durrett, Rick ^a   Remenik, Daniel ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Branching random walk; Branching selection system; Free boundary equation; Traveling wave solutions; Wiener Hopf equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865092501     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOP601     Document Type: Article

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