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Statistical properties of stochastic functionals under general resetting

Statistical Mechanics 2025-07-09 v1

Abstract

We derive the characteristic function of stochastic functionals of a random walk whose position is reset to the origin at random times drawn from a general probability distribution. We analyze the long-time behavior and obtain the temporal scaling of the first two moments of any stochastic functional of the random walk when the resetting time distribution exhibits a power-law tail. When the resetting times PDF has finite moments, the probability density of any functional converges to a delta function centered at its mean, indicating an ergodic phase. We explicitly examine the case of the half-occupation time and derive the ergodicity breaking parameter, the first two moments, and the limiting distribution when the resetting time distribution follows a power-law tail, for both Brownian and subdiffusive random walks. We characterize the three different shapes of the limiting distribution as a function of the exponent of the resetting distribution. Our theoretical findings are supported by Monte Carlo simulations, which show excellent agreement with the analytical results.

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@article{arxiv.2507.05955,
  title  = {Statistical properties of stochastic functionals under general resetting},
  author = {V. Méndez and R. Flaquer-Galmés},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05955},
  year   = {2025}
}
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