Random walks, Avalanches and branching processes

2006/06/16 by J. C. Kimball, H. L. Frisch, Kimball, J. C. +2
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Diffusion and Search Dynamics #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0606454

7 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2006/06/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Bernoulli random walks, a simple avalanche model, and a special branching process are essesntially identical. The identity gives alternative insights into the properties of these basic model sytems.

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