On the absorbing zero boundary problem in birth and death processes

J.W. Turner and M. Malek-Mansour

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1978, vol. 93, issue 3, 517-525

Abstract: The probability of absorption as well as the mean absorption time and its variance, have been calculated for a model which does not satisfy detailed balance. The explicit calculation of the variance is helpful in understanding the different predictions between the deterministic and the stochastic descriptions. These results can be obtained directly from the master equation by Laplace transform techniques.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(78)90172-3

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