Time to Absorption for a Heterogeneous Neutral Competition Model

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 119-130

  Borile, Claudio ^a   Pra, Paolo Dai ^b   Fischer, Markus ^b   Formentin, Marco ^b   Maritan, Amos ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Large deviations; Neutral models of biodiversity; Stochastic dynamics with quenched disorder; Voter Model with disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901983568     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-014-0989-8     Document Type: Article

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