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The L\'evy walk is a non-Brownian random walk model that has been found to describe anomalous dynamic phenomena in diverse fields ranging from biology over quantum physics to ecology. Recurrently occurring problems are to examine whether…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Seongyu Park , Samudrajit Thapa , Yeongjin Kim , Michael A. Lomholt , Jae-Hyung Jeon

Gene transcriptional regulatory is an inherently noisy process. In this paper, the study of fluctuations in a gene transcriptional regulatory system is extended to the case of L\'evy noise, a kind of non-Gaussian noises which can describe…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-09-06 Yong Xu , Jing Feng , JuanJuan Li , Huiqing Zhang

We analyze two different confining mechanisms for L\'{e}vy flights in the presence of external potentials. One of them is due to a conservative force in the corresponding Langevin equation. Another is implemented by Levy-Schroedinger…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Piotr Garbaczewski

The phenomenon of an excitable system producing a pulse under external or internal stimulation may be interpreted as a stochastic escape problem. This work addresses this issue by examining the Morris-Lecar neural model driven by symmetric…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Yancai Liu , Rui Cai , Jinqiao Duan

Transport of the Brownian particles driven by L\'evy flights coexisting with subdiffusion in asymmetric periodic potentials is investigated in the absence of any external driving forces. Using the Langevin-type dynamics with subordination…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-22 Bao-quan Ai , Ya-feng He

Stochastic evolution of various dynamic systems and reaction networks is commonly described in terms of noise assisted escape of an overdamped particle from a potential well, as devised by the paradigmatic Langevin equation in which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-16 Karol Capała , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Ewa Gudowska-Nowak

For $n$ equidistant observations of a L\'evy process at time distance $\Delta_n$ we consider the problem of testing hypotheses on the volatility, the jump measure and its Blumenthal-Getoor index in a non- or semiparametric manner.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-05 Markus Reiß

To obtain further insight on possible power law generalizations of Boltzmann equilibrium concepts, a stochastic collision model is investigated. We consider the dynamics of a tracer particle of mass $M$, undergoing elastic collisions with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Barkai

Continuous time random walks combining diffusive and ballistic regimes are introduced to describe a class of L\'evy walks on lattices. By including exponentially-distributed waiting times separating the successive jump events of a walker,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-02 Giampaolo Cristadoro , Thomas Gilbert , Marco Lenci , David P. Sanders

We are interested in modeling Darwinian evolution resulting from the interplay of phenotypic variation and natural selection through ecological interactions. The population is modeled as a stochastic point process whose generator captures…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Benjamin Jourdain , Sylvie Méléard , Wojbor Woyczynski

We study robust nonlinear filtering for stochastic models driven by L\'evy processes, where the signal and observation processes are coupled through common Brownian and jump noise. Robustness, defined as the continuous dependence of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Sharan Srinivasan , Vijay Gupta , Harsha Honnappa

Trust is the invisible glue that holds together the fabric of societies, economic systems, and political institutions. Yet, its dynamics-especially in real-world settings remain unpredictable and difficult to control. While classical trust…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-05 Mohamadali Berahman , Madjid Eshaghi Gordji

We study the problem of parameter estimation for discretely observed stochastic processes driven by additive small L\'{e}vy noises. We do not impose any moment condition on the driving L\'{e}vy process. Under certain regularity conditions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-05-23 Hongwei Long , Yasutaka Shimizu , Wei Sun

The L\'evy walk process for a lower interval of an excursion times distribution ($\alpha<1$) is discussed. The particle rests between the jumps and the waiting time is position-dependent. Two cases are considered: a rising and diminishing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-25 A. Kamińska , T. Srokowski

We investigate the dynamic impact of heterogeneous environments on superdiffusive random walks known as L\'evy flights. We devote particular attention to the relative weight of source and target locations on the rates for spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Dirk Brockmann

We study the most probable trajectories of the concentration evolution for the transcription factor activator in a genetic regulation system, with non-Gaussian stable L\'evy noise in the synthesis reaction rate taking into account. We…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-29 Xiujun Cheng , Hui Wang , Xiao Wang , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li

What is the analogue of L\'evy processes for random surfaces? Motivated by scaling limits of random planar maps in random geometry, we introduce and study L\'evy looptrees and L\'evy maps. They are defined using excursions of general L\'evy…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Igor Kortchemski , Cyril Marzouk

The rampant phenomenon of overpopulation and the remarkable increase of human movements over the last decade have caused an aggressive re-emergence of dengue fever, which made it the subject of several research fields. In this regard,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Driss Kiouach , Salim El Azami El-idrissi , Yassine Sabbar

A jumping process, defined in terms of jump size distribution and waiting time distribution, is presented. The jumping rate depends on the process value. The process, which is Markovian and stationary, relaxes to an equilibrium and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-20 T. Srokowski , A. Kaminska

Many studies on animal and human movement patterns report the existence of scaling laws and power-law distributions. Whereas a number of random walk models have been proposed to explain observations, in many situations individuals actually…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Boyer , O. Miramontes , H. Larralde