Continuous sample space reducing stochastic process
Abstract
We propose a simple model for sample space reducing (SSR) stochastic process, where the dynamical variable denoting the size of the state space is continuous. In general, one can view the model as a multiplicative stochastic process, with a constraint that the size of the state space cannot be smaller than a visibility parameter . We study the survival time statistics that reveal a subtle difference from the discrete version of the process. A straightforward generalization can explain the noisy SSR process, characterized by a tunable parameter . We also examine the statistics of the size of the state space that follows a power-law distributed probability , with a nontrivial value of the exponent as a function of the tunable parameter .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.18086,
title = {Continuous sample space reducing stochastic process},
author = {Rahul Chhimpa and Avinash Chand Yadav\},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18086},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
7 pages, 6 figures