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We introduce a stochastic traffic flow model to describe random traffic accidents on a single road. The model is a piecewise deterministic process incorporating traffic accidents and is based on a scalar conservation law with…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-13 Simone Göttlich , Stephan Knapp

Basing on main principles of statistical mechanics only, an exact virial expansion for path probability distribution of molecular Brownian particle in a fluid is derived which connects response of the distribution to perturbations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-05 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

We briefly review the problem of Brownian motion and describe some intriguing facets. The problem is first treated in its original form as enunciated by Einstein, Langevin, and others. Then, utilizing the problem of Brownian motion as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Sushanta Dattagupta , Aritra Ghosh

We consider a one-dimensional Brownian motion of fixed duration $T$. Using a path-integral technique, we compute exactly the probability distribution of the difference $\tau=t_{\min}-t_{\max}$ between the time $t_{\min}$ of the global…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-13 Francesco Mori , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

In numerical studies of diffusive dynamics, two different action functionals are often used to specify the probability distribution of trajectories, one of which requiring the evaluation of the second derivative of the potential in addition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-28 Artur B. Adib

Maximization of the path information entropy is a clear prescription for constructing models in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Here it is shown that, following this prescription under the assumption of arbitrary instantaneous…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-08-01 Sergio Davis , Diego González

The two-variable Langevin equations, modeling the Brownian motion of a particle moving in a potential and leading to the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, are shown to give rise to types of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jiulin Du

We show that classical particle mechanics (Hamiltonian and Lagrangian consistent with relativistic electromagnetism) can be derived from three fundamental assumptions: infinite reducibility, deterministic and reversible evolution, and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Gabriele Carcassi

Brownian motion is a ubiquitous physical phenomenon across the sciences. After its discovery by Brown and intensive study since the first half of the 20th century, many different aspects of Brownian motion and stochastic processes in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ralf Metzler

Understanding the statistical laws governing citation dynamics remains a fundamental challenge in network theory and the science of science. Citation networks typically exhibit in-degree distributions well approximated by log-normal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-14 Keisuke Okamura

We consider a system of multiscale stochastic differential equations whose slow component is drivenby a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H greater than 1/2. Under ergodic assumptions ensuring the applicability of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Xue-Mei Li , Colin Piernot , Szymon Sobczak , Kexing Ying

We study distribution dependent stochastic differential equations with irregular, possibly distributional drift, driven by an additive fractional Brownian motion of Hurst parameter $H\in (0,1)$. We establish strong well-posedness under a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Lucio Galeati , Fabian A. Harang , Avi Mayorcas

A stochastic action principle for stochastic dynamics is revisited. We present first numerical diffusion experiments showing that the diffusion path probability depend exponentially on average Lagrangian action. This result is then used to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Q. A. Wang , F. Tsobnang , S. Bangoup , F. Dzangue , A. Jeatsa , A. Le Méhauté

The aim of this work is to show that particle mechanics, both classical and quantum, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian, can be derived from few simple physical assumptions. Assuming deterministic and reversible time evolution will give us a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Gabriele Carcassi , Christine A. Aidala , David J. Baker , Lydia Bieri

The Boltzmann equation is one of the most famous equations and has vast applications in modern science. In the current study, we take the randomness of binary collisions into consideration and generalize the classical Boltzmann equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-04 Liu Hong

The path probability of stochastic motion of non dissipative or quasi-Hamiltonian systems is investigated by numerical experiment. The simulation model generates ideal one-dimensional motion of particles subject only to conservative forces…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Tongling Lin , Ru Wang , W. P. Bi , A. El Kaabouchi , C. Pujos , F. Calvayrac , Q. A. Wang

We give a probabilistic proof for the emergence of the Stable-$1$ Law for the random fluctuations of the mass of the extremal process of branching Brownian Motion away from its tip. This result was already shown by Mytnik et al. albeit…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Lisa Hartung , Oren Louidor , Tianqi Wu

The escape probability is a deterministic concept that quantifies some aspects of stochastic dynamics. This issue has been investigated previously for dynamical systems driven by Gaussian Brownian motions. The present work considers escape…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Huijie Qiao , Xingye Kan , Jinqiao Duan

The main goal of this paper is to provide a fractional stochastic differential equation modelling the physical phenomena governed by the Langevin equation in 1-dimension. A generalized equation leaning on the fractional Brownian motion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 Lounis Tewfik , Saïd Bouabdellah

Consider the first exit time of one-dimensional Brownian motion $\{B_s\}_{s\geq 0}$ from a random passageway. We discuss a Brownian motion with two time-dependent random boundaries in quenched sense. Let $\{W_s\}_{s\geq 0}$ be an other…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-18 You Lv