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This work analyzes fractional continuous-time random walks on two-layer multiplexes. A node-centric dynamics is used, in which it is assumed a Poisson distribution of a walker to become active, while a jump to one of its neighbors depends…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-01-29 Alfonso Allen-Perkins , Roberto F. S. Andrade

On infinite homogeneous structures, two random walkers meet with certainty if and only if the structure is recurrent, i.e., a single random walker returns to its starting point with probability 1. However, on general inhomogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-21 Elena Agliari , Alexander Blumen , Davide Cassi

We present an analytical approach to study simple symmetric random walks (RWs) on a crossing geometry consisting of a plane square lattice crossed by $n_l$ number of lines that all meet each other at a single point (the origin) on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-02 Reza Sepehrinia , Abbas Ali Saberi , Hor Dashti-Naserabadi

We investigate the dynamics of simultaneous random walkers with resetting on networks and derive exact analytical expressions for the mean first-encounter times of Markovian random walkers. Specifically, we consider two cases for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Daniel Rubio-Gómez , Alejandro P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

Intracellular processes often rely on the timely encounter of mobile reaction partners, including intermittently motor-driven organelles. The underlying cytoskeletal network presents a complex landscape that both directs particle movement…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Lizzy Teryoshin , Mario Hidalgo-Soria , Elena F. Koslover

We analyse the problem of meeting times for interdependent stochastic agents: random walkers whose behaviour is stochastic but controlled by their selections from some set of allowed actions, and the inference problem of when these agents…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Marco Sangalli , Erik Quaeghebeur , Thomas Krak

In this work, we study the dynamics of multiple random walkers on networks subject to a simultaneous resetting protocol, whereby all walkers are synchronously returned to their respective initial nodes. For this collective Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-23 Cristian D. Suarez-Jimenez , Alejandro P. Riascos , Denis Boyer

The possibility to identify the nature (e.g. random or scale free) of complex networks while performing respective random walks is investigated with respect to autonomous agents based on Bayesian decision theory and humans navigating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Filipi Nascimento Silva , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

We consider a general framework for multi-type interacting particle systems on graphs, where particles move one at a time by random walk steps, different types may have different speeds, and may interact, possibly randomly, when they meet.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-15 John Haslegrave , Peter Keevash

Various graph algorithms have been developed with multiple random walks, the movement of several independent random walkers on a graph. Designing an efficient graph algorithm based on multiple random walks requires investigating multiple…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Yusuke Sakumoto , Hiroyuki Ohsaki

An analytic effective medium theory is constructed to study the mean access times for random walks on hybrid disordered structures formed by embedding complex networks into regular lattices, considering transition rates $F$ that are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Paul E. Parris , Julián Candia , V. M. Kenkre

We study exploration properties of a random walk on a network. For a fully connected network we find that the problem can be mapped to the well known coupon collector problem, thus allowing us to estimate form of $P(S,t)$: the distribution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-24 Sarvesh K. Upadhyay , Trifce Sandev , Sanjay Kumar , R. K. Singh

Random walks are basic diffusion processes on networks and have applications in, for example, searching, navigation, ranking, and community detection. Recent recognition of the importance of temporal aspects on networks spurred studies of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-14 Leo Speidel , Renaud Lambiotte , Kazuyuki Aihara , Naoki Masuda

We develop an analytical method to calculate encounter times of two random walkers in one dimension when each individual is segregated in its own spatial domain and shares with its neighbor only a fraction of the available space, finding…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-07 Luca Giuggioli , Sebastian Pérez-Becker , David P. Sanders

We study the motion of two non-interacting quantum particles performing a random walk on a line and analyze the probability that the two particles are detected at a particular position after a certain number of steps (meeting problem). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Stefanak , T. Kiss , I. Jex , B. Mohring

We derive an approximate but explicit formula for the Mean First Passage Time of a random walker between a source and a target node of a directed and weighted network. The formula does not require any matrix inversion, and it takes as only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-10 Silvia Bartolucci , Fabio Caccioli , Francesco Caravelli , Pierpaolo Vivo

Empirical contact networks or interaction networks demonstrate peculiar characteristics stemming from the fundamental social, psychological, physical mechanisms governing human interactions. Although these mechanisms are complex, we test…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-20 Razieh Masoumi , Juliette Gambaudo , Mathieu Génois

We show that the recently introduced logarithmic metrics used to predict disease arrival times on complex networks are approximations of more general network-based measures derived from random walks theory. Using the daily air-traffic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-18 Flavio Iannelli , Andreas Koher , Dirk Brockmann , Philipp Hoevel , Igor M. Sokolov

We study discrete-time random walks on arbitrary networks with first-passage resetting processes. To the end, a set of nodes are chosen as observable nodes, and the walker is reset instantaneously to a given resetting node whenever it hits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-30 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

Random Walk is a basic algorithm to explore the structure of networks, which can be used in many tasks, such as local community detection and network embedding. Existing random walk methods are based on single networks that contain limited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongsheng Luo , Yuchen Bian , Yaowei Yan , Xiong Yu , Jun Huan , Xiao Liu , Xiang Zhang