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Because the decathlon tests many facets of athleticism, including sprinting, throwing, jumping, and endurance, many consider it to be the ultimate test of athletic ability. On this view, estimating the maximal decathlon score and…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-06 Paul-Hieu V. Nguyen , James M. Smoliga , Benton Lindaman , Sameer K. Deshpande

Combining the Hardy-Littlewood k-tuple conjecture with a heuristic application of extreme-value statistics, we propose a family of estimator formulas for predicting maximal gaps between prime k-tuples. Computations show that the estimator…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Alexei Kourbatov

We investigate some extremal problems in Fourier analysis and their connection to a problem in prime number theory. In particular, we improve the current bounds for the largest possible gap between consecutive primes assuming the Riemann…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Emanuel Carneiro , Micah B. Milinovich , Kannan Soundararajan

Elucidating emergent regularities in intriguing crowd dynamics is a fundamental scientific problem arising in multiple fields. In this work, based on the social force model, we simulate the typical scenario of collective escape towards a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-11 Chen Cheng , Jinglai Li , Zhenwei Yao

We construct, for each real number $0\leq \alpha \leq 1$, a random walk on a finitely generated semigroup whose speed exponent is $\alpha$. We further show that the speed function of a random walk on a finitely generated semigroup can be…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Guy Blachar , Be'eri Greenfeld

The study of epidemic spreading on populations of networked individuals has seen recently a great deal of significant progresses. A common point of all past studies is, however, that there is only one peak of infected density in each single…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-09 Muhua Zheng , Wei Wang , Ming Tang , Jie Zhou , S. Boccaletti , Zonghua Liu

Information scrambling refers to the rapid spreading of initially localized information over an entire system, via the generation of global entanglement. This effect is usually detected by measuring a temporal decay of the out-of-time order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 Joseph Harris , Bin Yan , Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a random walker diffusing on a disordered one-dimensional lattice with random trappings. The distribution of escape probabilities is computed exactly for any strength of the disorder. These…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Clement Sire

Currently, the safety of people has become a very important problem in different places including subway station, universities, colleges, airport, shopping mall and square, city squares. Therefore, considering intelligence event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Constantinou Miti , Demetriou Zatte , Siraj Sajid Gondal

Uncovering how inequality emerges from human interaction is imperative for just societies. Here we show that the way social groups interact in face-to-face situations can enable the emergence of disparities in the visibility of social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-17 Marcos Oliveira , Fariba Karimi , Maria Zens , Johann Schaible , Mathieu Génois , Markus Strohmaier

We study the first occurrences of gaps between primes in the arithmetic progression (P): $r$, $r+q$, $r+2q$, $r+3q,\ldots,$ where $q$ and $r$ are coprime integers, $q>r\ge1$. The growth trend and distribution of the first-occurrence gap…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Alexei Kourbatov , Marek Wolf

We study the estimation and concentration on its expectation of the probability to observe data further than a specified distance from a given iid sample in a metric space. The problem extends the classical problem of estimation of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Andreas Maurer

Despite recent advances in uncovering the quantitative features of stationary human activity patterns, many applications, from pandemic prediction to emergency response, require an understanding of how these patterns change when the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-06-06 James P. Bagrow , Dashun Wang , Albert-László Barabási

How do competing populations convert a spatial advantage into macroscopic dominance? We introduce a stochastic model for resource competition that decouples the transient discovery phase from monopolization. Initial symmetry breaking is…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-12 Stuti Guha , Shawn D. Ryan , Bhargav R. Karamched

This article rigorously analyzes the meeting time between pursuers and evaders performing random walks on digraphs. There exist several bounds on the expected meeting time between random walkers on graphs in the literature, however,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Mishel George , Rushabh Patel , Francesco Bullo

In this paper we study the probability that a $d$ dimensional simple random walk (or the first $L$ steps of it) covers each point in a nearest neighbor path connecting 0 and the boundary of an $L_1$ ball. We show that among all such paths,…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Eviatar B. Procaccia , Yuan Zhang

This contribution provides microscopic experimental study of pedestrian motion in front of the bottleneck, explains the high variance of individual travel time by the statistical analysis of trajectories. The analysis shows that this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-08 Marek Bukáček , Pavel Hrabák , Milan Krbálek

Understanding and predicting uncertain things are the central themes of scientific evolution. Human beings revolve around these fears of uncertainties concerning various aspects like a global pandemic, health, finances, to name but a few.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-31 Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Arnob Ray , Arindam Mishra , Dibakar Ghosh

The random walk process in a nonhomogeneous medium, characterised by a L\'evy stable distribution of jump length, is discussed. The width depends on a position: either before the jump or after that. In the latter case, the density slope is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-29 Tomasz Srokowski

We study the time until first occurrence, the first-passage time, of rare density fluctuations in diffusive systems. We approach the problem using a model consisting of many independent random walkers on a lattice. The existence of spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-16 David P. Sanders , Hernán Larralde
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