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We study random walks on a family of treelike regular fractals with a trap fixed on a central node. We obtain all the eigenvalues and their corresponding multiplicities for the associated stochastic master equation, with the eigenvalues…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-11 Zhongzhi Zhang , Bin Wu , Guanrong Chen

We study discrete random walks on the NFSFT and provide new methods to calculate the analytic solutions of the MFPT for any pair of nodes, the MTT for any target node and MDT for any source node. Further more, using the MTT and the MDT as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-18 Junhao Peng , Guoai Xu

We propose an approximation for the first return time distribution of random walks on undirected networks. We combine a message-passing solution with a mean-field approximation, to account for the short- and long-term behaviours…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Erik Hormann , Renaud Lambiotte , George T. Cantwell

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

The rotor walk on a graph is a deterministic analogue of random walk. Each vertex is equipped with a rotor, which routes the walker to the neighbouring vertices in a fixed cyclic order on successive visits. We consider rotor walk on an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Omer Angel , Alexander E. Holroyd

Performing random walks in networks is a fundamental primitive that has found numerous applications in communication networks such as token management, load balancing, network topology discovery and construction, search, and peer-to-peer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-01-12 Atish Das Sarma , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan

We develop an analytical approach which provides the dependence of the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for random walks on complex networks both on the target connectivity and on the source-target distance. Our approach puts forward two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Vincent Tejedor , Olivier Bénichou , Raphael Voituriez

Many scientific questions can be framed as asking for a first passage time (FPT), which generically describes the time it takes a random "searcher" to find a "target." The important timescale in a variety of biophysical systems is the time…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Hwai-Ray Tung , Sean D Lawley

Consider a random walk on a tree $G=(V,E)$. For $v,w \in V$, let the hitting time $H(v,w)$ denote the expected number of steps required for the random walk started at $v$ to reach $w$, and let $\pi_v = \mathrm{deg}(v)/2|E|$ denote the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Andrew Beveridge , Ben Bridenbaugh , Ari Holcombe Pomerance

The global first passage time density of a network is the probability that a random walker released at a random site arrives at an absorbing trap at time T. We find simple expressions for the mean global first passage time <T> for five…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-04 C. P. Haynes , A. P. Roberts

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

Using both numerical simulations and scaling arguments, we study the behavior of a random walker on a one-dimensional small-world network. For the properties we study, we find that the random walk obeys a characteristic scaling form. These…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Almaas , R. V. Kulkarni , D. Stroud

Understanding the topological characteristics of complex networks and how they affect navigability is one of the most important goals in science today, as it plays a central role in various economic, biological, ecological and social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-29 M. S. Chaves , T. G. Mattos , A. P. F. Atman

Network growth models that embody principles such as preferential attachment and local attachment rules have received much attention over the last decade. Among various approaches, random walks have been leveraged to capture such…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Giulio Iacobelli , Daniel R. Figueiredo , Giovanni Neglia

We consider a mortal random walker on a family of hierarchical graphs in the presence of some trap sites. The configuration comprising the graph, the starting point of the walk, and the locations of the trap sites is taken to be exactly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-19 V. Balakrishnan , E. Abad , T. Abil , J. J. Kozak

Average trapping time (ATT) is central in the trapping problem since it is a key indicator characterizing the efficiency of the problem. Previous research has provided the scaling of a lower bound of the ATT for random walks in general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-17 Yihang Yang , Zhongzhi Zhang

We study numerically the mean access times for random walks on hybrid disordered structures formed by embedding scale-free networks into regular lattices, considering different transition rates for steps across lattice bonds ($F$) and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Julián Candia , Paul E. Parris , V. M. Kenkre

We consider random walks that start and are absorbed on the leaves of random networks and study the length of such walks. For the networks we investigate, Erdos-Renyi random graphs and Barabasi-Albert scale free networks, these walks are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-11 David Lancaster

We propose the first return time distribution (FRTD) of a random walk as an interpretable and mathematically grounded node embedding. The FRTD assigns a probability mass function to each node, allowing us to define a distance between any…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Vedanta Thapar , Renaud Lambiotte , George T. Cantwell

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