Extreme Value Statistics and Traveling Fronts: Various Applications
arXiv:cond-mat/0205581 · doi:10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01422-X
Abstract
An intriguing connection between extreme value statistics and traveling fronts has been found recently in a number of diverse problems. In this brief review we outline a few such problems and consider their various applications.
A brief review (6 pages, 2 figures) to appear in Physica A as part of the proceedings of Statphys-Kolkata IV (2002)