Abstract
Noise is shown to play an active role in inducing abnormal growth patterns. Specifically, through the use of the active walker model, two types of abnormal growth—transformational and irreproducible—are shown to arise spontaneously due to noise under appropriate conditions and hence could be intrinsic in nature. Our results are discussed in relation to electrodeposit experiments. The possibility that some cancer growth may be intrinsic is speculated.
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Lam, L., Veinott, M.C., Ratoff, D.A., Pochy, R.D. (1996). Noise-Induced Abnormal Growth. In: Millonas, M. (eds) Fluctuations and Order. Institute for Nonlinear Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3992-5_17
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