Random walks, Avalanches and branching processes
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606454,
title = {Random walks, Avalanches and branching processes},
author = {J. C. Kimball and H. L. Frisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606454},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures