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Continuous sample space reducing stochastic process

Statistical Mechanics 2025-07-25 v1

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 ϵ\epsilon. 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 λ[0,1]\lambda \in [0, 1]. We also examine the statistics of the size of the state space that follows a power-law distributed probability Pϵ(zϵ)zα\mathbb{P}_{\epsilon}(z\le \epsilon) \sim z^{-\alpha}, with a nontrivial value of the exponent as a function of the tunable parameter α=1+λ\alpha = 1+\lambda.

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@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

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