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An existence theorem for the discrete coagulation-fragmentation equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John L. Spouge
John L. Spouge
Affiliation:
Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, University of California; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.
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This paper gives an existence result for the discrete coagulation-fragmentation equations:

(If k = 1, the first and last sums are 0.)

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 96 , Issue 2 , September 1984 , pp. 351 - 357
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1984

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