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Time‐Scale Invariance in Transport and Relaxation

JAN 01, 1991
Important, and often puzzling, features of transport and relaxation in disordered systems can be attributed to the long‐tailed distributions of the times between events that limit the motion.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881289

Harvey Scher
Michael F. Shlesinger
John T. Bendler

An early theme in probability was calculating the fair ante for various games of chance. Nicolas Bernoulli introduced a seemingly innocent game, first published in 1713, that yielded a paradoxical result. The result has become known as the St. Petersburg paradox, because of an analysis written later by Daniel Bernoulli in the Commentary of the St. Petersburg Academy.

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More about the Authors

Harvey Scher. BP Research, Cleveland, Ohio.

Michael F. Shlesinger. Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia.

John T. Bendler. General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York.

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