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Power-law random walks

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We present some new results about the distribution of a random walk whose independent steps follow a qq-Gaussian distribution with exponent 11q;qR\frac{1}{1-q}; q \in \mathbb{R}. In the case q>1q>1 we show that a stochastic representation of the point reached after nn steps of the walk can be expressed explicitly for all nn. In the case q<1,q<1, we show that the random walk can be interpreted as a projection of an isotropic random walk, i.e. a random walk with fixed length steps and uniformly distributed directions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606768,
  title  = {Power-law random walks},
  author = {C. Vignat and A. Plastino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606768},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures