%0 Journal Article
%T The expected duration of random sequential adsorption
%A Aidan Sudbury
%J Mathematics
%D 2008
%I arXiv
%R 10.1214/07-AAP445
%X 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3184v1