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We present a study of the noise driven escape of an overdamped Brownian particle moving in a cubic potential profile with a metastable state. We analyze the role of the initial conditions of the particle on the enhancement of the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Fiasconaro , D. Valenti , B. Spagnolo

Consider the first exit time of one-dimensional Brownian motion $\{B_s\}_{s\geq 0}$ from a random passageway. We discuss a Brownian motion with two time-dependent random boundaries in quenched sense. Let $\{W_s\}_{s\geq 0}$ be an other…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-18 You Lv

We derive an analytical expression for the propagator and the transition path time distribution of a two-dimensional active Brownian particle crossing a parabolic barrier with absorbing boundary conditions at both sides. By taking those of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Michele Caraglio

Motivated by an approximation problem from mathematical finance, we analyse the stability of the boundary crossing probability for the multivariate Brownian motion process, with respect to small changes of the boundary. Under broad…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-11 S. McKinlay , K. Borovkov

We derive a functional equation for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) of a generic self-similar Markovian continuous process to a target in a one-dimensional domain and obtain its exact solution. We show that the obtained expression of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Vincent Tejedor , Olivier Bénichou , Ralf Metzler , Raphael Voituriez

The joint distribution of maximum increase and decrease for Brownian motion up to an independent exponential time is computed. This is achieved by decomposing the Brownian path at the hitting times of the infimum and the supremum before the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paavo Salminen , Pierre Vallois

We consider a particle diffusing along the links of a general graph possessing some absorbing vertices. The particle, with a spatially-dependent diffusion constant D(x) is subjected to a drift U(x) that is defined in every point of each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Benichou , J. Desbois

Circular Dyson Brownian motion describes the Brownian dynamics of particles on a circle (periodic boundary conditions), interacting through a logarithmic, long-range two-body potential. Within the log-gas picture of random matrix theory, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Wouter Buijsman

We investigate a moving boundary problem for a Brownian particle on the semi-infinite line in which the boundary moves by a distance proportional to the time between successive collisions of the particle and the boundary. Phenomenologically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-14 B. De Bruyne , J. Randon-Furling , S. Redner

This paper deals with the three-dimensional narrow escape problem in dendritic spine shaped domain, which is composed of a relatively big head and a thin neck. The narrow escape problem is to compute the mean first passage time of Brownian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Hyundae Lee , Xiaofei Li , Yuliang Wang

A heat exchanger can be modeled as a closed domain containing an incompressible fluid. The moving fluid has a temperature distribution obeying the advection-diffusion equation, with zero temperature boundary conditions at the walls.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-23 Florence Marcotte , Charles R. Doering , Jean-Luc Thiffeault , William R. Young

We numerically investigate the mean exit time of an inertial active Brownian particle from a circular cavity with single or multiple exit windows. Our simulation results witness distinct escape mechanisms depending upon the relative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-18 Tanwi Debnath , Pinaki Chaudhury , Taritra Mukherjee , Debasish Mondal , Pulak K. Ghosh

We address the problem of minimizing the expected first-passage time of a Brownian motion with Poissonian resetting, with respect to the resetting rate $r.$ We consider both the one-boundary and the two-boundary cases.We investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Mario Abundo

In this article we study a problem related to the first passage and inverse first passage time problems for Brownian motions originally formulated by Jackson, Kreinin and Zhang (2009). Specifically, define $\tau_X = \inf\{t>0:W_t + X \le…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-24 Sebastian Jaimungal , Alex Kreinin , Angelo Valov

The mean first passage time (MFPT) for a Brownian particle to reach a small target in cellular microdomains is a key parameter for chemical activation. Although asymptotic estimations of the MFPT are available for various geometries, these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-19 Juergen Reingruber , David Holcman

Sticky Brownian motion is the simplest example of a diffusion process that can spend finite time both in the interior of a domain and on its boundary. It arises in various applications such as in biology, materials science, and finance.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Miranda Holmes-Cerfon

We consider a Brownian particle diffusing in a one dimensional interval with absorbing end points. We study the ramifications when such motion is interrupted and restarted from the same initial configuration. We provide a comprehensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-01 Arnab Pal , V. V. Prasad

The {\alpha}-stable L\'evy process, commonly used to describe L\'evy flight, is characterized by discontinuous jumps and is widely used to model anomalous transport phenomena. In this study, we investigate the associated exit problem and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Minglei Yang , Diego del-Castillo-Negrete , Guannan Zhang

In this article we study the minimal time for the exact controllability of one-dimensional first-order linear hyperbolic systems when all the controls are acting on the same side of the boundary. We establish an explicit and easy-to-compute…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Long Hu , Guillaume Olive

In line with the methodology introduced in our recent article for formulating probabilistic representations of integration by parts involving killed diffusion, we establish an integration by parts formula for the first exit time of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-12 Noufel Frikha , Arturo Kohatsu-Higa , Libo Li