Extreme Value Statistics and Traveling Fronts: Various Applications
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
An intriguing connection between extreme value statistics and traveling fronts has been found recently in a number of diverse problems. In this brief review we outline a few such problems and consider their various applications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205581,
title = {Extreme Value Statistics and Traveling Fronts: Various Applications},
author = {Satya N. Majumdar and P. L. Krapivsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205581},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
A brief review (6 pages, 2 figures) to appear in Physica A as part of the proceedings of Statphys-Kolkata IV (2002)