Mean first passage time for a class of non-Markovian processes

A Dienst1, R Friedrich

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9, 48149 Münster, Germany.

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|October 2, 2007
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