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We compute the average shape of trajectories of some one--dimensional stochastic processes x(t) in the (t,x) plane during an excursion, i.e. between two successive returns to a reference value, finding that it obeys a scaling form. For…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francesca Colaiori , Andrea Baldassarri , Claudio Castellano

In this manuscript, we continue with the systematic study of the speed of extinction of continuous state branching processes in L\'evy environments under more general branching mechanisms. Here, we deal with the weakly subcritical regime…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-20 Natalia Cardona-Tobón , Juan Carlos Pardo

The evolution of several physical and biological systems, ranging from neutron transport in multiplying media to epidemics or population dynamics, can be described in terms of branching exponential flights, a stochastic process which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-10 Andrea Zoia , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo , Sameh Mohamed

This survey aims to review two decades of progress on exponential functionals of (possibly killed) real-valued L\'evy processes. Since the publication of the seminal survey by Bertoin and Yor, substantial advances have been made in…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Martin Minchev , Mladen Savov

Levy walk is a fundamental model with applications ranging from quantum physics to paths of animal foraging. Taking animal foraging as an example, a natural idea that comes to one's mind is to introduce the multiple internal states for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-04 Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

For a L\'evy process $X$ on a finite time interval consider the probability that it exceeds some fixed threshold $x>0$ while staying below $x$ at the points of a regular grid. We establish exact asymptotic behavior of this probability as…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Krzysztof Bisewski , Jevgenijs Ivanovs

We consider a previously devised model describing Levy random walks (Phys. Rev E 79, 011110; 80, 031148, (2009)). It is demonstrated numerically that the given model describes Levy random walks with superdiffusive, ballistic, as well as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ihor Lubashevsky , Andreas Heuer , Rudolf Friedrich , Ramil Usmanov

We provide theoretical and experimental evidence of statistical outliers in random laser emission that are not accounted for by the, now established, power-law tailed (L\'evy) distribution. Such outliers manifest themselves as single, large…

The method of approximate automodel solution for the Green's function of the time-dependent superdiffusive (nonlocal) transport equations (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 49 (2016) 255002) is extended to the case of a finite velocity of carriers.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. B. Kukushkin , A. A. Kulichenko

We investigate the impact of external periodic potentials on superdiffusive random walks known as Levy flights and show that even strongly superdiffusive transport is substantially affected by the external field. Unlike ordinary random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Brockmann , T. Geisel

We investigate the first-passage dynamics of symmetric and asymmetric L\'evy flights in a semi-infinite and bounded intervals. By solving the space-fractional diffusion equation, we analyse the fractional-order moments of the first-passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Amin Padash , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Marcin Magdziarz , Babak Shokri , Ralf Metzler

We study the work fluctuations of a particle subjected to a deterministic drag force plus a random forcing whose statistics is of the L\'evy type. In the stationary regime, the probability density of the work is found to have ``fat''…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-02 H. Touchette , E. G. D. Cohen

We study a class of random walk, the stored-energy-driven L\'evy flight (SEDLF), whose jump length is determined by a stored energy during a trapped state. The SEDLF is a continuous-time random walk with jump lengths being coupled with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-26 Takuma Akimoto , Tomoshige Miyaguchi

During the last ten years or so, derivations of the Born rule based on decision theory have been proposed and developed, and it is claimed that these are valid in the context of the Everett interpretation. This claim is critically assessed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-05 Alastair I. M. Rae

A fluctuation theory and, in particular, a theory of scale functions is developed for upwards skip-free L\'evy chains, i.e. for right-continuous random walks embedded into continuous time as compound Poisson processes. This is done by…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Matija Vidmar

In this paper we study the problem of constructing bootstrap confidence intervals for the L\'evy density of the driving L\'evy process based on high-frequency observations of a L\'evy-driven moving average processes. Using a spectral…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 D. Belomestny , E. Ivanova , T. Orlova

We consider a stationary prey in a given region of space and we aim at detecting optimal foraging strategies. On the one hand, when the prey is uniformly distributed, the best possible strategy for the forager is to be stationary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Serena Dipierro , Giovanni Giacomin , Enrico Valdinoci

L\'evy flights constitute a broad class of random walks that occur in many fields of research, from animal foraging in biology, to economy to geophysics. The recent advent of L\'evy glasses allows to study L\'evy flights in controlled way…

We study rare events in the extreme value statistics of stochastic symmetric jump processes with power tails in the distributions of the jumps, using the big-jump principle. The principle states that in the presence of stochastic processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-04 Alberto Bassanoni , Alessandro Vezzani , Raffaella Burioni

The spreading of evolutionary novelties across populations is the central element of adaptation. Unless population are well-mixed (like bacteria in a shaken test tube), the spreading dynamics not only depends on fitness differences but also…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-19 Oskar Hallatschek , Daniel S. Fisher