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A new formalism is presented for analytically obtaining the probability density function, \( P_{n}(s) \), for the distance between two random points in an \( n \)-dimensional sphere of radius \( R \). Our formalism allows \( P_{n}(s) \) to…

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We calculate the distribution function of the end--to--end distance of a semiflexible polymer with large bending rigidity. This quantity is directly observable in experiments on single semiflexible polymers (e.g., DNA, actin) and relevant…

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We consider two independent symmetric Markov random flights $\bold Z_1(t)$ and $\bold Z_2(t)$ performed by the particles that simultaneously start from the origin of the Euclidean plane $\Bbb R^2$ in random directions distributed uniformly…

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