{
  "id": "0801.3184",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2008-01-21T13:14:02.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-01-21T13:14:02.000Z",
  "title": "The expected duration of random sequential adsorption",
  "authors": [
    "Aidan Sudbury"
  ],
  "comment": "Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-AAP445 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)",
  "journal": "Annals of Applied Probability 2008, Vol. 18, No. 1, 100-108",
  "doi": "10.1214/07-AAP445",
  "categories": [
    "math.PR"
  ],
  "abstract": "When gas molecules bind to a surface they may do so in such a way that the adsorption of one molecule inhibits the arrival of others. We consider random sequential adsorption in which the empty sites of a graph are irreversibly occupied in random order by a variety of types of ``particles.'' In a finite region the process terminates when no more particles can arrive. A universal asymptotic formula for the mean duration is given.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2008-01-21T13:14:02.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "60K35"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "random sequential adsorption",
      "expected duration",
      "gas molecules bind",
      "universal asymptotic formula",
      "empty sites"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2008arXiv0801.3184S"
    }
  }
}