title: Temporal and spatial persistence of combustion fronts in paper.
abstract: The spatial and temporal persistence, or first-return distributions are measured for slow-combustion fronts in paper. The stationary temporal and (perhaps less convincingly) spatial persistence exponents agree with the predictions based on the front dynamics, which asymptotically belongs to the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class. The stationary short-range and the transient behavior of the fronts are non-Markovian, and the observed persistence properties thus do not agree with the predictions based on Markovian theory. This deviation is a consequence of additional time and length scales, related to the crossovers to the asymptotic coarse-grained behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Merikoski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maunuksela
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Myllys
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Timonen
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Alava