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The Levy-flight dynamics can stem from simple random walks in a system whose operational time (number of steps n) typically grows superlinearly with physical time t. Thus, this processes is a kind of continuous-time random walks (CTRW),…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. M. Sokolov

It has been found that human mobility exhibits random patterns following the Levy flight, where human movement contains many short flights and some long flights, and these flights follow a power-law distribution. In this paper, we study the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-12-30 Linfang Tian , Kai Zhao , Jiaming Yin , Huy Vo , Weixiong Rao

Levy flights are known to be optimal search strategies in the particular case of revisitable targets. In the relevant situation of non revisitable targets, we propose an alternative model of bidimensional search processes, which explicitly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Benichou , C. Loverdo , M. Moreau , R. Voituriez

L\'{e}vy flights is a random walk where the step-lengths have a probability distribution that is heavy-tailed. It has been shown that L\'{e}vy flights can maximize the efficiency of resource searching in uncertain environments, and also…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Jiamin Wei , YangQuan Chen , Yongguang Yu , Yuquan Chen

We consider the optimal transport problem between a set of $n$ red points and a set of $n$ blue points subject to a concave cost function such as $c(x,y) = \|x-y\|^{p}$ for $0< p < 1$. Our focus is on a particularly simple matching…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Andrea Ottolini , Stefan Steinerberger

We study the dynamics of a starving random walk in general spatial dimension $d$. This model represents an idealized description for the fate of an unaware forager whose motion is not affected by the presence or absence of resources. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-15 O. Bénichou , M. Chupeau , S. Redner

Random multiplicative growth with redistribution generates stationary Pareto wealth tails in the Bouchaud-M\'ezard model, but assumes a fixed multiplicative noise intensity. This is restrictive for physical and financial growth processes,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-20 Maxence Arutkin , Alexandre Vallée

We study the ergodic properties of superdiffusive, spatiotemporally coupled Levy walk processes. For trajectories of finite duration, we reveal a distinct scatter of the scaling exponents of the time averaged mean squared displacement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

A dynamical model of capital exchange is introduced in which a specified amount of capital is exchanged between two individuals when they meet. The resulting time dependent wealth distributions are determined for a variety of exchange…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Ispolatov , P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

We present a continuous-space version of Infotaxis, a search algorithm where a searcher greedily moves to maximize the gain in information about the position of the target to be found. Using a combination of analytical and numerical tools…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-09-19 Carlo Barbieri , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

We report a new statistical general property in traveling salesman problem, that the $n$th-nearest-neighbor distribution of optimal tours verifies with very high accuracy an exponential decay as a function of the order of neighbor $n$. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yong Chen , Pan Zhang

We consider random walkers searching for a target in a bounded one-dimensional heterogeneous environment, in the interval $[0,L]$, where diffusion is described by a space-dependent diffusion coefficient $D(x)$. Boundary conditions are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-06 L. Menon , M. A. F. dos Santos , C. Anteneodo

We study the distribution of the area and perimeter of the convex hull of the "true" self-avoiding random walk in a plane. Using a Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling method, we obtain the distributions also in their far tails, down to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-31 Hendrik Schawe , Alexander K. Hartmann

Let $P$ be a set of points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and let $\alpha \ge 1$ be a real number. We define the distance between two points $p,q\in P$ as $|pq|^{\alpha}$, where $|pq|$ denotes the standard Euclidean distance between $p$ and $q$. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Mark de Berg , Fred van Nijnatten , René Sitters , Gerhard J. Woeginger , Alexander Wolff

The ensemble properties and time-averaged observables of a memory-induced diffusive-superdiffusive transition are studied. The model consists in a random walker whose transitions in a given direction depend on a weighted linear combination…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-11 Adrian A. Budini

The non-Markovian continuous-time random walk model, featuring fat-tailed waiting times and narrow distributed displacements with a non-zero mean, is a well studied model for anomalous diffusion. Using an analytical approach, we recently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-18 Wanli Wang , Eli Barkai

Given an initial point $x_0 \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and a sequence of vectors $v_1, v_2, \dots$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, we define a greedy sequence by setting $x_{n} = x_{n-1} \pm v_n$ where the sign is chosen so as to minimize $\|x_n\|$. We prove…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Alex Albors , François Clément , Shosuke Kiami , Braeden Sodt , Ding Yifan , Tony Zeng

We study a one dimensional generalization of the exponential trap model using both numerical simulations and analytical approximations. We obtain the asymptotic shape of the average diffusion front in the sub-diffusive phase. Our central…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 E. M. Bertin , J. -P. Bouchaud

The prediction of diffusion in solids is necessary to understand the microstructure evolution in materials out of equilibrium. Although one can reasonably predict diffusive transport coefficients using atomistic methods, these approaches…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-07 Jacob Jeffries , Emilio Mendoza Reyes , Fadi Abdeljawad , Murray Daw , Enrique Martinez

The recent availability of large databases allows to study macroscopic properties of many complex systems. However, inferring a model from a fit of empirical data without any knowledge of the dynamics might lead to erroneous interpretations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-08-31 Riccardo Gallotti , Armando Bazzani , Sandro Rambaldi , Marc Barthelemy
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