The formal theory of birth-and-death processes, lattice path combinatorics and continued fractions

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DOI10.1239/aap/1013540243zbMath0966.60069OpenAlexW2084079228MaRDI QIDQ4521478

Philippe Flajolet, Fabrice M. Guillemin

Publication date: 6 August 2001

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00073005/file/RR-3667.pdf




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