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We study a discrete-time stochastic process that can also be interpreted as a model for a viral evolution. A distinguishing feature of our process is power-law tails due to dynamics that resembles preferential attachment models. In the…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Iddo Ben-Ari , Carter Bedsole , Grace O'Neil

We study the formation and the evolution of velocity distribution tails for systems with long-range interactions. In the thermal bath approximation, the evolution of the distribution function of a test particle is governed by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Mohammed Lemou

We show that the well-known Langevin equation, modeling the Brownian motion and leading to a Gaussian stationary distribution of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, is changed by the smallest multiplicative noise. This leads to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Tamas S. Biro , Antal Jakovac

Strong violations of existing fluctuation theorems may arise in nonequilibrium steady states characterized by distributions with power-law tails. The ratio of the probabilities of positive and negative fluctuations of equal magnitude…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-11 Adrian A. Budini

Statistical distributions with heavy tails are ubiquitous in natural and social phenomena. Since the entries in heavy tail have disproportional significance, the knowledge of its exact shape is very important. Citations of scientific papers…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael Golosovsky , Sorin Solomon

Compton scattering of low-frequency radiation by an isotropic distribution of (i) mildly and (ii) ultra relativistic electrons is considered. It is shown that the ensemble-averaged differential cross-section in this case is noticeably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Sergei Y. Sazonov , Rashid A. Sunyaev

A family of wave packets with power law tails are employed to analyze the long time dependence of the corresponding probability density. The densities, associated to packets for free particles in the one-dimensional space, with sufficiently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Mendes , C. Anteneodo

Power law distributions, in particular Pareto distributions, describe data across diverse areas of study. We have developed a package in R to estimate the tail index for such datasets focusing on speed (in particular with large datasets),…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-19 Ranjiva Munasinghe , Pathum Kossinna , Dovini Jayasinghe , Dilanka Wijeratne

For various plasma applications the so-called (non-relativistic) $\kappa$-distribution is widely used to reproduce and interpret the suprathermal particle populations exhibiting a power-law distribution in velocity or energy. Despite its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 K. Scherer , H. Fichtner , M. Lazar

The Renyi distribution ensuring the maximum of a Renyi entropy is investigated for a particular case of a power--law Hamiltonian. Both Lagrange parameters, $\alpha$ and $\beta$ can be excluded. It is found that $\beta$ does not depend on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. G. Bashkirov

A length dependence of the effective mobility in the form of a power law, B ~ L^(1-1/alpha) is observed in dispersive transport in amorphous substances, with 0 < \alpha < 1. We deduce this behavior as a simple consequence of the statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. W. Kehr , K. P. N. Murthy , H. Ambaye

Experiments quantifying the rotational and translational motion of particles in a dense, driven, 2D granular gas floating on an air table reveal that kinetic energy is divided equally between the two translational and one rotational degrees…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Kiri Nichol , Karen E. Daniels

Many man-made and natural phenomena, including the intensity of earthquakes, population of cities and size of international wars, are believed to follow power-law distributions. The accurate identification of power-law patterns has…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-04-15 Yogesh Virkar , Aaron Clauset

The function $\gamma(x)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-x^2}}$ plays an important role in mathematical physics, e.g. as factor for relativistic time dilation in case of $x=\beta$ with $\beta=\frac{v}{c}$ or $\beta=\frac{pc}{E}$. Due to former…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Orthuber

Relativistic effects in the thermodynamical properties of interacting particle systems are investigated within the framework of the relativistic direct interaction theory in various forms of dynamics. In the front form of relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Tretyak

Taylor's power law states that the variance function decays as a power law. It is observed for population densities of species in ecology. For random networks another power law, that is, the power law degree distribution is widely studied.…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-10 István Fazekas , Csaba Noszály , Noémi Uzonyi

Adopting a bottom-up perspective, we propose a novel two-parametric nonadditive entropy, $S_{\kappa\ell}$, associated with a Kappa-type power-law velocity distribution, $F_{\kappa\ell}(v)$, recently derived in the literature. By formulating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-04 J. A. S. Lima , M. H. Benetti

Within the point vortex model, we compute the probability distribution function of the velocity fluctuations induced by same-signed vortices scattered within a disk according to a fractal distribution of distances to origin $\sim…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-25 Audun Skaugen , Luiza Angheluta

We propose a stochastic process driven by memory effect with novel distributions including both exponential and leptokurtic heavy-tailed distributions. A class of distribution is analytically derived from the continuum limit of the discrete…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-05-14 Jongwook Kim , Gabjin Oh

Coincidence scattering of polarized electrons from nuclei with polarization transfer to outgoing nucleons is studied within the context of relativistic mean field theory. Effects introduced by the dynamical enhancement of the lower…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 M. C. Martínez , J. A. Caballero , T. W. Donnelly