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We consider a one-dimensional simple random walk surviving among a field of static soft traps : each time it meets a trap the walk is killed with probability 1--e --$\beta$ , where $\beta$ is a positive and fixed parameter. The positions of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Julien Poisat , François Simenhaus

The Minimum Vertex Cover problem, a classical NP-complete problem, presents significant challenges for exact solution on large graphs. Fixed-Parameter Tractability (FPT) offers a powerful paradigm to address such problems by exploiting a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mumuksh Tayal

We propose an analytical approach to study non-Markov random walks by employing an exact enumeration method. Using the method, we derive an exact expansion for the first-passage time (FPT) distribution for any continuous, differentiable…

We present a novel computational method of first-passage times between a starting site and a target site of regular bounded lattices. We derive accurate expressions for all the moments of this first-passage time, validated by numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S Condamin , O. Benichou , M. Moreau

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

In this work we consider a class of recursively-grown fractal networks $G_n(t)$, whose topology is controlled by two integer parameters $t$ and $n$. We first analyse the structural properties of $G_n(t)$ (including fractal dimension,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-12 Junhao Peng , Elena Agliari

We study a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle (RTP), which is a prototypical model for active system, moving within an arbitrary external potential. Using backward Fokker-Planck equations, we derive the differential equation satisfied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-27 Mathis Guéneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

Fluctuations in stochastic systems are usually characterized by the full counting statistics, which analyzes the distribution of the number of events taking place in the fixed time interval. In an alternative approach, the distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-24 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

Processes slow compared to atomic vibrations pose significant challenges in atomistic simulations, particularly for phenomena such as diffusive relaxations and phase transitions, where repeated crossings and the shear number of thermally…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-15 Hoje Chun , Hao Tang , Bin Xing , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli , Ju Li

Geodesic distance, sometimes called shortest path length, has proven useful in a great variety of applications, such as information retrieval on networks including treelike networked models. Here, our goal is to analytically determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Fei Ma , Ping Wang , Xudong Luo

The multifractal behavior of the normalized first passage time is investigated on the two dimensional Sierpinski gasket with both absorbing and reflecting barriers. The normalized first passage time for Sinai model and the logistic model to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kyungsik Kim , J. S. Choi , Y. S. Kong

The spectral dimension has been widely used to understand transport properties on regular and fractal lattices. Nevertheless, it has been little studied for complex networks such as scale-free and small world networks. Here we study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Hwang , C. -K Yun , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng , D. Kim

Under the effect of strong genetic drift, it is highly probable to observe gene fixation or gene loss in a population, shown by infinite peaks on a coherently constructed potential energy landscape. It is then important to ask what such…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-15 Song Xu , Shuyun Jiao , Pengyao Jiang , Ping Ao

In this paper we present a novel probabilistic sampling-based motion planning algorithm called the Fast Marching Tree algorithm (FMT*). The algorithm is specifically aimed at solving complex motion planning problems in high-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Lucas Janson , Edward Schmerling , Ashley Clark , Marco Pavone

The first passage time (FPT) problem is ubiquitous in many applications. In finance, we often have to deal with stochastic processes with jump-diffusion, so that the FTP problem is reducible to a stochastic differential equation with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Di Zhang , Roderick V. N. Melnik

This paper studies the optimality and complexity of Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader (FTPL) policy in $m$-set semi-bandit problems. FTPL has been studied extensively as a promising candidate of an efficient algorithm with favorable regret for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Botao Chen , Jongyeong Lee , Chansoo Kim , Junya Honda

The eigenvalue spectrum of the transition matrix of a network encodes important information about its structural and dynamical properties. We study the transition matrix of a family of fractal scale-free networks and analytically determine…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-16 Zhongzhi Zhang , Zhengyi Hu , Yibin Sheng , Guanrong Chen

As a classic self-similar network model, Sierpinski gasket network has been used many times to study the characteristics of self-similar structure and its influence on the dynamic properties of the network. However, the network models…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-23 Zhizhuo Zhang , Bo Wu

We analyze velocity-jump process models of persistent search for a single target on a bounded domain. The searcher proceeds along ballistic trajectories and is absorbed upon collision with the target boundary. When reaching the domain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Daniel B. Poll , Zachary P. Kilpatrick

This study delves into first-passage percolation on random geometric graphs in the supercritical regime, where the graphs exhibit a unique infinite connected component. We investigate properties such as geodesic paths, moderate deviations,…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Lucas R. de Lima , Daniel Valesin
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