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A wide class of non-stationary superdiffusive transport on a uniform background with a power-law decay, at large distances, of the step-length probability distribution function (PDF) is shown to possess an automodel solution. The solution…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-06-22 A. B. Kukushkin , P. A. Sdvizhenskii

We present a study of the scaling properties of cluster-cluster aggregation with a source of monomers in the stationary state when the spatial transport of particles occurs by Levy flights. We show that the transition from mean-field…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-05-11 Colm Connaughton , Jamie Harris

Starting from a master equation, we derive the evolution equation for the size distribution of elements in an evolving system, where each element can grow, divide into two, and produce new elements. We then probe general solutions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-05 Segun Goh , H. W. Kwon , M. Y. Choi , Jean-Yves Fortin

Portfolio optimization is a financial task which requires the allocation of capital on a set of financial assets to achieve a better trade-off between return and risk. To solve this problem, recent studies applied multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Yifan He , Claus Aranha

The standard Levy walk is performed by a particle that moves ballistically between randomly occurring collisions, when the intercollision time is a random variable governed by a power-law distribution. During instantaneous collision events…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-03 S. Denisov , V. Zaburdaev , P. Hanggi

We investigate the first-passage dynamics of symmetric and asymmetric L\'evy flights in a semi-infinite and bounded intervals. By solving the space-fractional diffusion equation, we analyse the fractional-order moments of the first-passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Amin Padash , Aleksei V. Chechkin , Bartłomiej Dybiec , Marcin Magdziarz , Babak Shokri , Ralf Metzler

The generalized correlation approach, which has been successfully used in statistical radio physics to describe non-Gaussian random processes, is proposed to describe stochastic financial processes. The generalized correlation approach has…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Dmitry V. Vinogradov

This paper investigates L\'evy walks with random velocities, extending classical models beyond constant speed assumptions. We derive scaling limits, demonstrating that diffusion depends on interplay between heavy-tailed duration and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Hubert Woszczek , Marek A. Teuerle , Agnieszka Wyłomańska

The Luria-Delbr{\"u}ck experiment is a cornerstone of evolutionary theory, demonstrating the randomness of mutations before selection. The distribution of the number of mutants in this experiment has been the subject of intense…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Bahram Houchmandzadeh

Genetic interactions can strongly influence the fitness effects of individual mutations, yet the impact of these epistatic interactions on evolutionary dynamics remains poorly understood. Here we investigate the evolutionary role of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-14 Benjamin H. Good , Michael M. Desai

We study a minimal model for genome evolution whose elementary processes are single site mutation, duplication and deletion of sequence regions and insertion of random segments. These processes are found to generate long-range correlations…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Philipp W. Messer , Peter F. Arndt , Michael Lässig

Branching random flights are key to describing the evolution of many physical and biological systems, ranging from neutron multiplication to gene mutations. When their paths evolve in bounded regions, we establish a relation between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-12-17 Andrea Zoia , Eric Dumonteil , Alain Mazzolo

Viruses evolve in the background of host immune systems that exert selective pressure and drive viral evolutionary trajectories. This interaction leads to different evolutionary patterns in antigenic space. Examples observed in nature…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-20 Jacopo Marchi , Michael Lässig , Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak

Moments are expectation values of products of powers of position and momentum, taken over quantum states (or averages over a set of classical particles). For free particles, the evolution in the quantum case is closely related to that of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Mark Andrews

The outcomes of evolution are determined by which mutations occur and fix. In rapidly adapting microbial populations, this process is particularly hard to predict because lineages with different beneficial mutations often spread…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-02-17 Evgeni M. Frenkel , Benjamin H. Good , Michael M. Desai

The analysis of glioblastoma (GB) cell locomotion and its modeling inspired by Levy random walks is presented herein. We study such walks occurring on a two-dimensional plane where the walk is similar to the motion of a bird flying with a…

Among Markovian processes, the hallmark of L\'evy flights is superdiffusion, or faster-than-Brownian dynamics. Here we show that L\'evy laws, as well as Gaussians, can also be the limit distributions of processes with long range memory that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-10 Denis Boyer , Inti Pineda

We study a simple model of DNA evolution in a growing population of cells. Each cell contains a nucleotide sequence which randomly mutates at cell division. Cells divide according to a branching process. Following typical parameter values…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-05 David Cheek , Tibor Antal

I discuss the so-called stochastic individual based model of adaptive dynamics and in particular how different scaling limits can be obtained by taking limits of large populations, small mutation rate, and small effect of single mutations…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-06 Anton Bovier

We consider the A + A --> emptyset reaction, where the transport of the particles is given by Levy flights in a quenched random potential. With a common literature model of the disorder, the random potential can only increase the rate of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ligang Chen , Michael W. Deem