Coexistence in neutral theories: Interplay of criticality and mild local preferences

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Borile, Claudio ^a   Molina Garcia, Daniel ^b   Maritan, Amos ^c   Muñoz, Miguel A ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coarsening processes (theory); Finite size scaling; Population dynamics (theory); Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921787643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2015/01/P01030     Document Type: Article

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