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The evolution of several physical and biological systems, ranging from neutron transport in multiplying media to epidemics or population dynamics, can be described in terms of branching exponential flights, a stochastic process which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-10 Andrea Zoia , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo , Sameh Mohamed

Branching random walks are key to the description of several physical and biological systems, such as neutron multiplication, genetics and population dynamics. For a broad class of such processes, in this Letter we derive the discrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-10 Andrea Zoia , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo

It is a common practice to describe branching random walks in terms of birth, death and walk of particles, which makes it easier to use them in different applications. The main results obtained for the models of symmetric continuous-time…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Anastasiia Rytova , Elena Yarovaya

Many random transport phenomena, such as radiation propagation, chemical/biological species migration, or electron motion, can be described in terms of particles performing {\em exponential flights}. For such processes, we sketch a general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-02 Andrea Zoia , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo

Characterizing the occupation statistics of a radiation flow through confined geometries is key to such technological issues as nuclear reactor design and medical diagnosis. This amounts to assessing the distribution of the travelled length…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-03 Clélia de Mulatier , Alain Mazzolo , Andrea Zoia

In this article, we study branching random walks on graphs modeling division-mutation processes inspired by adaptive immunity. We apply the theory of expander graphs on mutation rules in evolutionary processes and obtain estimates for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-05 Irene Balelli , Vuk Milisic , Gilles Wainrib

Branching processes are widely used to model the viral epidemic evolution. For more adequate investigation of viral epidemic modelling, we suggest to apply branching processes with transport of particles usually called branching random…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Elizaveta Ermakova , Polina Makhmutova , Elena Yarovaya

An intrinsic branching structure within the transient random walk on a strip in a random environment is revealed. As applications, which enables us to express the hitting time explicitly, and specifies the density of the absolutely…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-06 Wenming Hong , Meijuan Zhang

Results on the behaviour of the rightmost particle in the $n$th generation in the branching random walk are reviewed and the phenomenon of anomalous spreading speeds, noticed recently in related deterministic models, is considered. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-25 J. D. Biggins

Branched structures that evolve over time critically determine the function of various natural and engineered systems, including growing vasculature, neural arborization, pulmonary networks such as lungs, river basins, power distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-04 Fabian H. Kreten , Ludger Santen , Reza Shaebani

We consider a branching random walk in a random space-time environment of disasters where each particle is killed when meeting a disaster. This extends the model of the "random walk in a disastrous random environment" introduced by [15]. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Nina Gantert , Stefan Junk

We consider the critical branching processes in correlated random environment which is positively associated and study the probability of survival up to the n-th generation. Moreover, when the environment is given by fractional Brownian…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Xinxin Chen , Nadine Guillotin-Plantard

By building upon a Feynman-Kac formalism, we assess the distribution of the number of hits in a given region for a broad class of discrete-time random walks with scattering and absorption. We derive the evolution equation for the generating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-14 Andrea Zoia , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo

We analyze the relaxation dynamics of Feynman-Kac path integral kernel functions in terms of branching diffusion processes with killing. This sheds new light on the admissible path-wise description of the relaxation to equilibrium for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-23 P. Garbaczewski , M. Zaba

Branching processes are models used to describe populations that reproduce and die over time. In the classical setting, an individual's reproductive capacity remains constant throughout its lifetime. However, in real-world situations,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Daniela Bertacchi , Elena Montanaro , Fabio Zucca

We consider a continuous-time branching random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$ in a random non homogeneous environment. Particles can walk on the lattice points or disappear with random intensities. The process starts with one particle at initial time…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-12 Vladimir Kutsenko , Stanislav Molchanov , Elena Yarovaya

Random walks on multidimensional nonlinear landscapes are of interest in many areas of science and engineering. In particular, properties of adaptive trajectories on fitness landscapes determine population fates and thus play a central role…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-10-08 Michael Manhart , Alexandre V. Morozov

By decomposing the random walk path, we construct a multitype branching process with immigration in random environment for corresponding random walk with bounded jumps in random environment. Then we give two applications of the branching…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-22 Wenming Hong , Huaming Wang

We study the dynamics of a deterministic walk confined in a narrow two-dimensional space randomly filled with point-like targets. At each step, the walker visits the nearest target not previously visited. Complex dynamics is observed at…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Denis Boyer

We investigate the temporal evolution and spatial propagation of branching annihilating random walks in one dimension. Depending on the branching and annihilation rates, a few-particle initial state can evolve to a propagating finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Daniel ben-Avraham , Francois Leyvraz , Sid Redner
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