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The movement of organisms and cells can be governed by occasional long distance runs, according to an approximate L\'evy walk. For T cells migrating through chronically-infected brain tissue, runs are further interrupted by long pauses, and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez , Heiko Gimperlein , Kevin J. Painter , Jakub Stocek

Autonomous robots are commonly tasked with the problem of area exploration and search for certain targets or artifacts of interest to be tracked. Traditionally, the problem formulation considered is that of complete search and thus -…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Christos Papachristos , Kostas Alexis

We study the kinetics for the search of an immobile target by randomly moving searchers that detect it only upon encounter. The searchers perform intermittent random walks on a one-dimensional lattice. Each searcher can step on a nearest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Gleb Oshanin , Katja Lindenberg , Horacio S Wio , Sergei Burlatsky

We introduce the pushy random walk, where a walker can push multiple obstacles, thereby penetrating large distances in environments with finite obstacle density. This process provides a minimal model for experimentally observed interactions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Ofek Lauber Bonomo , Itamar Shitrit , Shlomi Reuveni , Sidney Redner

We introduce the concept of a deterministic walk in a deterministic environment on a countable state space (DWDE). For the deterministic walk in a fixed environment we establish properties analogous to those found in Markov chain theory,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-01-16 Colin M. W. Little

We study the distribution of occupation times for a one-dimensional random walk restricted to a finite interval by reflecting boundary conditions. At short times the classical bimodal distribution due to L\'evy is reproduced with walkers…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-06 Sascha Kaldasch , Andreas Engel

We introduce a strategy of navigation in undirected networks, including regular, random, and complex networks, that is inspired by L\'evy random walks, generalizing previous navigation rules. We obtained exact expressions for the stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-22 A. P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

The horizontal dynamics of a bouncing ball interacting with an irregular surface is investigated and is found to demonstrate behavior analogous to a random walk. Its stochastic character is substantiated by the calculation of a permutation…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-15 Luiz Antonio Barreiro

With the ease of deployment, capabilities of evading the jammers and obscuring their existence, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are one of the most suitable candidates to perform surveillance. There exists a body of literature in which the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Ali Rahmati , Do Young Eun , Huaiyu Dai

We are interested in modeling Darwinian evolution resulting from the interplay of phenotypic variation and natural selection through ecological interactions. The population is modeled as a stochastic point process whose generator captures…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Benjamin Jourdain , Sylvie Méléard , Wojbor Woyczynski

In the current paper Fokker Planck model of random walks has been extended to non conservative cases characterized by explicit dependence of diffusion and energy on time. A given generalization allows describing of such non equilibrium…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-01-30 Sergey Kamenshchikov

We study a two-dimensional diffusive motion of a tracer particle in restricted, crowded anisotropic geometries. The underlying medium is the same as in our previous work [J. Chem. Phys. 140, 044706 (2014)] in which standard, gaussian…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-03-17 Michał Cieśla , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak , Igor Sokolov

Random walks on discrete lattices are fundamental models that form the basis for our understanding of transport and diffusion processes. For a single random walker on complex networks, many properties such as the mean first passage time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-21 Aanjaneya Kumar , M. S. Santhanam

The emergence of heavy-tailed statistics in complex systems is conventionally attributed to non-local stochastic jumps or non-Markovian memory. Here, we present a one-dimensional random walk where power-law behaviors arise instead from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-25 Henrique S. Lima , Evaldo M. F. Curado

The ensemble properties and time-averaged observables of a memory-induced diffusive-superdiffusive transition are studied. The model consists in a random walker whose transitions in a given direction depend on a weighted linear combination…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-11 Adrian A. Budini

L\'evy walks (LWs) are spatiotemporally coupled random-walk processes describing superdiffusive heat conduction in solids, propagation of light in disordered optical materials, motion of molecular motors in living cells, or motion of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-01 Pengbo Xu , Tian Zhou , Ralf Metzler , Weihua Deng

Random walks constitute a fundamental mechanism for many dynamics taking place on complex networks. Besides, as a more realistic description of our society, multiplex networks have been receiving a growing interest, as well as the dynamical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-25 Quantong Guo , Emanuele Cozzo , Zhiming Zheng , Yamir Moreno

Consider a stochastic process that behaves as a $d$-dimensional simple and symmetric random walk, except that, with a certain fixed probability, at each step, it chooses instead to jump to a given site with probability proportional to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Cécile Mailler , Gerónimo Uribe Bravo

Population dynamics of individuals undergoing birth and death and diffusing by short or long ranged twodimensional spatial excursions (Gaussian jumps or L\'{e}vy flights) is studied. Competitive interactions are considered in a global case,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-25 E. Heinsalu , E. Hernandez-Garcia , C. Lopez

We compute exactly the full distribution of the number $m$ of local minima in a one-dimensional landscape generated by a random walk or a L\'evy flight. We consider two different ensembles of landscapes, one with a fixed number of steps $N$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-08 Anupam Kundu , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr