A many-body field theory approach to stochastic models in population biology.

Many models used in theoretical ecology, or mathematical epidemiology are stochastic, and may also be spatially-explicit. Techniques from quantum field theory have been used before in reaction-diffusion systems, principally to investigate their critical behavior. Here we argue that they make many ca...

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Main Authors: Peter J Dodd, Neil M Ferguson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2734401?pdf=render