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In this paper, we consider discrete time random walks on the pseudofractal scale-free web (PSFW) and we study analytically the related first passage properties. First, we classify the nodes of the PSFW into different levels and propose a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-13 Junhao Peng , Elena Agliari , Zhongzhi Zhang

We study a random walk in random environment on the non-negative integers. The random environment is not homogeneous in law, but is a mixture of two kinds of site, one in asymptotically vanishing proportion. The two kinds of site are (i)…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-28 Ostap Hryniv , Mikhail V. Menshikov , Andrew R. Wade

The random walk process underlies the description of a large number of real world phenomena. Here we provide the study of random walk processes in time varying networks in the regime of time-scale mixing; i.e. when the network connectivity…

Hypergraph has been selected as a powerful candidate for characterizing higher-order networks and has received increasing attention in recent years. In this article, we study random walks with resetting on hypergraph by utilizing spectral…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Fei Ma , Xincheng Hu , Haobin Shi , Wei Pan , Ping Wang

We investigate the effects of markovian resseting events on continuous time random walks where the waiting times and the jump lengths are random variables distributed according to power law probability density functions. We prove the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Vicenç Méndez , Axel Masó-Puigdellosas , Trifce Sandev , Daniel Campos

We develop novel numerical methods and perturbation approaches to determine the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle to be captured by either small stationary or mobile traps inside a bounded 2-D confining domain. Of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Sarafa Iyaniwura , Tony Wong , Michael J. Ward , Colin B. Macdonald

A heterogeneous continuous time random walk is an analytical formalism for studying and modeling diffusion processes in heterogeneous structures on microscopic and macroscopic scales. In this paper we study both analytically and numerically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-05 Liubov Tupikina , Denis S. Grebenkov

First passage of stochastic processes under resetting has recently been an active research topic in the field of statistical physics. However, most of previous studies mainly focused on the systems with continuous time and space. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-30 Hanshuang Chen , Guofeng Li , Feng Huang

We derive an approximate formula for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) to a small absorbing target of arbitrary shape inside an elongated domain of a slowly varying axisymmetric profile. For this purpose, the original Poisson equation in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Denis S. Grebenkov , Alexei T. Skvortsov

In many complex systems, for the activity f(i) of the constituents or nodes i, a power-law relationship was discovered between the standard deviation sigma(i) and the average strength of the activity: sigma(i) ~ <f(i)>^alpha; universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zoltan Eisler , Janos Kertesz

In this paper we study some aspects of search for an immobile target by a swarm of N non-communicating, randomly moving searchers (numbered by the index k, k = 1, 2,..., N), which all start their random motion simultaneously at the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 C. Mejia-Monasterio , G. Oshanin , G. Schehr

We study first-passage statistics for one-dimensional random walks $S_n$ with independent and identically distributed jumps starting from the origin. We focus on the joint distribution of the first-passage time $\tau_b$ and first-passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-16 Mattia Radice , Giampaolo Cristadoro

This paper presents a new simulation-based approach to address the stochastic Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) problem, focusing on large congested networks and dynamic settings. The proposed methodology incorporates a random walk model…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Mozhgan Pourmoradnasseri , Sadok Ben Yahia , Amnir Hadachi

A simple random walk on a graph is a sequence of movements from one vertex to another where at each step an edge is chosen uniformly at random from the set of edges incident on the current vertex, and then transitioned to next vertex.…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-28 Mohammed Abdullah

Random walks process on networks plays a fundamental role in understanding the importance of nodes and the similarity of them, which has been widely applied in PageRank, information retrieval, and community detection, etc. Individual's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-13 Bing Wang , Hongjuan Zeng , Yuexing Han

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

The determination of the mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle in a bounded 2-D domain containing small absorbing traps is a fundamental problem with biophysical applications. The average MFPT is the expected capture time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Tony Wong , Colin B. Macdonald , Micheal J. Ward

We study the first hitting time statistics between a one-dimensional run-and-tumble particle and a target site that switches intermittently between visible and invisible phases. The two-state dynamics of the target is independent of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Denis Boyer

Quantifying how spatial disorder affects the movement of a diffusing particle or agent is fundamental to target search studies. When diffusion occurs on a network, that is on a highly disordered environment, we lack the mathematical tools…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-15 Daniel Marris , Chittaranjan Hens , Subrata Ghosh , Luca Giuggioli

We study the effect of a resetting point randomly distributed around the origin on the mean first passage time of a Brownian searcher moving in one dimension. We compare the search efficiency with that corresponding to reset to the origin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-03 Vicenç Mendez , Rosa Flaquer-Galmés , Daniel Campos