Diffusion on a Sphere with Localized Traps: Mean First Passage Time, Eigenvalue Asymptotics, and Fekete Points

DOI10.1137/080733280zbMath1191.35032OpenAlexW2074890393MaRDI QIDQ5189588

Daniel Coombs, Michael J. Ward, Ronny Straube

Publication date: 17 March 2010

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/db03da6f88cdc86b091ccb5761f9e704f29b095f

zbMATH Keywords

matched asymptotic expansions Green's functions elliptic Fekete points mean first passage time logarithmic expansions receptor clustering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Spectral theory and eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations (35P99) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Biophysics (92C05)

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