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A general class of bilinear systems of discrete or continuous coagulation equations is considered. It is shown that their solutions can be approximated by the solutions of appropriate stochastic systems describing the coagulation process in terms of stochastic semigroups.
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Published in Ukrains'kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 770–777, June, 2005.
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Lachowicz, M. Stochastic Semigroups and Coagulation Equations. Ukr Math J 57, 913–922 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-005-0239-y
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