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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

Random walks have been proposed as a simple method of efficiently searching, or disseminating information throughout, communication and sensor networks. In nature, animals (such as ants) tend to follow correlated random walks, i.e., random…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Graeme Smith , J. W. Sanders , Qin Li

We study random walks with stochastic resetting to the initial position on arbitrary networks. We obtain the stationary probability distribution as well as the mean and global first passage times, which allow us to characterize the effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-03 Alejandro P. Riascos , Denis Boyer , Paul Herringer , José L. Mateos

In this paper, we propose a general framework for the trapping problem on a weighted network with a perfect trap fixed at an arbitrary node. By utilizing the spectral graph theory, we provide an exact formula for mean first-passage time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-04 Yuan Lin , Zhongzhi Zhang

The transport properties of discrete-time random walks on ring networks with deterministic shortcuts are investigated through analytical and numerical methods. The network consists of a periodic chain where each node is connected to its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-30 Oscar Ivan Torres Mena , Francisco J Sevilla

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

A lot of previous work showed that the sectional mean first-passage time (SMFPT), i.e., the average of mean first-passage time (MFPT) for random walks to a given hub node (node with maximum degree) averaged over all starting points in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-04 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuyang Gao

We study the problem of random search in finite networks with a tree topology, where it is expected that the distribution of the first-passage time F(t) decays exponentially. We show that the slope of the exponential tail is independent of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-22 M. Reza Shaebani , Robin Jose , Christian Sand , Ludger Santen

In general, the power-law degree distribution has profound influence on various dynamical processes defined on scale-free networks. In this paper, we will show that power-law degree distribution alone does not suffice to characterize the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-09 Zhongzhi Zhang , Weilen Xie , Shuigeng Zhou , Mo Li , Jihong Guan

The explicit determinations of the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for trapping problem are limited to some simple structure, e.g., regular lattices and regular geometrical fractals, and determining MFPT for random walks on other media,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yi Qi , Shuigeng Zhou , Wenlei Xie , Jihong Guan

We present an analytical method for computing the mean cover time of a random walk process on arbitrary, complex networks. The cover time is defined as the time a random walker requires to visit every node in the network at least once. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-02 Benjamin F. Maier , Dirk Brockmann

Explicit determination of the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for trapping problem on complex media is a theoretical challenge. In this paper, we study random walks on the Apollonian network with a trap fixed at a given hub node (i.e. node…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-22 Zhongzhi Zhang , Jihong Guan , Wenlei Xie , Yi Qi , Shuigeng Zhou

We study the properties of random walks on complex trees. We observe that the absence of loops reflects in physical observables showing large differences with respect to their looped counterparts. First, both the vertex discovery rate and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-21 Andrea Baronchelli , Michele Catanzaro , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

A vast variety of real-life networks display the ubiquitous presence of scale-free phenomenon and small-world effect, both of which play a significant role in the dynamical processes running on networks. Although various dynamical processes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-19 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Wenlei Xie , Lichao Chen , Yuan Lin , Jihong Guan

In the present work, we study random walks on complex networks subject to stochastic resetting when the resetting probability is node-dependent. Using a renewal approach, we derive the exact expressions of the stationary occupation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-05 Yanfei Ye , Hanshuang Chen

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

The mean first passage time~(MFPT) of random walks is a key quantity characterizing dynamic processes on disordered media. In a random fractal embedded in the Euclidean space, the MFPT is known to obey the power law scaling with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Hyun-Myung Chun , Sungmin Hwang , Byungnam Kahng , Heiko Rieger , Jae Dong Noh

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

Anomalous random walks having long-range jumps are a critical branch of dynamical processes on networks, which can model a number of search and transport processes. However, traditional measurements based on mean first passage time are not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-11 Tongfeng Weng , Jie Zhang , Moein Khajehnejad , Michael Small , Rui Zheng , Pan Hui

Previous work shows that the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for random walks to a given hub node (node with maximum degree) in uncorrelated random scale-free networks is closely related to the exponent $\gamma$ of power-law degree…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-12 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuyang Gao , Wenlei Xie