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For many stochastic dynamic systems, the Mean First Passage Time (MFPT) is a useful concept, which gives expected time before a state of interest. This work is an extension of MFPT in several ways. (1) We show that for some systems the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Cenk Oguz Saglam , Katie Byl

We investigate the average hitting times of simple random walks on the $k$-th power graph $C_N^k$ of the cycle graph $C_N$. First, we show that the average hitting times are characterized by a difference equation corresponding to the graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Tsuyoshi Miezaki , Shunya Tamura

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

In this paper, we are concerned with mean hitting time $\langle\mathcal{H}\rangle$ for random walks on recursive growth tree networks that are built based on an arbitrary tree as the seed via implementing various primitive graphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Fei Ma , Ping Wang

Random walks on graphs are an essential primitive for many randomised algorithms and stochastic processes. It is natural to ask how much can be gained by running $k$ multiple random walks independently and in parallel. Although the cover…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nicolás Rivera , Thomas Sauerwald , John Sylvester

The exact formula for the average hitting time (HT, as an abbreviation) of simple random walks from one vertex to any other vertex on the square $C^2_N$ of an $N$-vertex cycle graph $C_N$ was given by N. Chair [\textit{Journal of…

We make use of the Open Quantum Random Walk setting due to S. Attal, F. Petruccione, C. Sabot and I. Sinayskiy [J. Stat. Phys. (2012) 147:832-852] in order to discuss hitting times and a quantum version of the Mean Hitting Time Formula from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Carlos F. Lardizabal

We investigate the paramater of the average range of $M$-Lipschitz mapping of a given graph. We focus on well-known classes such as paths, complete graphs, complete bipartite graphs and cycles and show closed formulas for computing this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Jan Bok

The main results in this paper are about the full coalescence time $\mathsf{C}$ of a system of coalescing random walks over a finite graph $G$. Letting $\mathsf{m}(G)$ denote the mean meeting time of two such walkers, we give sufficient…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira

We extend the random walk framework to include compounded steps, providing first-passage time (FPT) properties for a new class of superdiffusive processes, which are governed by the space-fractional spectral Fokker-Planck equation. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang

The problem of a restricted random walk on graphs which keeps track of the number of immediate reversal steps is considered by using a transfer matrix formulation. A closed-form expression is obtained for the generating function of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Y. Wu , H. Kunz

In the previous chapters, we explored the effects of resetting on networks considering one and two nodes. In this chapter, we will describe a generalization of random walks with resetting to an arbitrary number of nodes $\mathcal{M}$. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-26 Fernanda Hernández González

We show that the expected time for a random walk on a (multi-)graph $G$ to traverse all $m$ edges of $G$, and return to its starting point, is at most $2m^2$; if each edge must be traversed in both directions, the bound is $3m^2$. Both…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Agelos Georgakopoulos , Peter Winkler

We introduce a new technique for bounding the cover time of random walks by relating it to the runtime of randomized broadcast. In particular, we strongly confirm for dense graphs the intuition of Chandra et al. \cite{CRRST97} that "the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-11 Robert Elsässer , Thomas Sauerwald

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

First passage time (FPT) theory is often used to estimate timescales in cellular and molecular biology. While the overwhelming majority of studies have focused on the time it takes a given single Brownian searcher to reach a target,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-13 Sean D. Lawley , Jacob B. Madrid

We introduce a general model of trapping for random walks on graphs. We give the possible scaling limits of these Randomly Trapped Random Walks on $\mathbb {Z}$. These scaling limits include the well-known fractional kinetics process, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Gérard Ben Arous , Manuel Cabezas , Jiří Černý , Roman Royfman

We consider the simple random walk conditioned to stay forever in a finite domain $D_N \subset \mathbb{Z}^d, d \geq 3$ of typical size $N$. This confined walk is a random walk on the conductances given by the first eigenvector of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Nicolas Bouchot

We present analytical results for the distribution of cover times of random walks (RWs) on random regular graphs consisting of $N$ nodes of degree $c$ ($c \ge 3$). Starting from a random initial node at time $t=1$, at each time step $t \ge…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-22 Ido Tishby , Ofer Biham , Eytan Katzav

We study the properties of random walks on complex trees. We observe that the absence of loops reflects in physical observables showing large differences with respect to their looped counterparts. First, both the vertex discovery rate and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-21 Andrea Baronchelli , Michele Catanzaro , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras