English
Related papers

Related papers: Log-normal Superstatistics Reveals Statistical Res…

200 papers

A key task in Bayesian statistics is sampling from distributions that are only specified up to a partition function (i.e., constant of proportionality). However, without any assumptions, sampling (even approximately) can be #P-hard, and few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Rong Ge , Holden Lee , Andrej Risteski

In recent experiments by Richardson et al. ((2010), PLoS ONE 5(3): e9621. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0009621) ant motion out of the nest is shown to be a non-stationary process intriguingly similar to the dynamics encountered in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-17 Paolo Sibani , Simon Christiansen

The measured time series from complex systems are renowned for their intricate stochastic behavior, characterized by random fluctuations stemming from external influences and nonlinear interactions. These fluctuations take diverse forms,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-19 Pyei Phyo Lin , Matthias Wächter , Joachim Peinke , M. Reza Rahimi Tabar

Swarm intelligence is widely recognized as a powerful paradigm of self-organized optimization, with numerous examples of successful applications in distributed artificial intelligence. However, the role of physical interactions in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-10-28 Karsten Peters , Anders Johansson , Audrey Dussutour , Dirk Helbing

Random metastability occurs when an externally forced or noisy system possesses more than one state of apparent equilibrium. This work investigates fluctuations in a class of random dynamical systems, arising from randomly perturbing a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Cecilia González-Tokman , Joshua Peters

The stochastic motion in a nonhomogeneous medium with traps is studied and diffusion properties of that system are discussed. The particle is subjected to a stochastic stimulation obeying a general L\'evy stable statistics and experiences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tomasz Srokowski

The generalised Langevin equation with a retarded friction and a double-well potential is solved. The random force is modelled by a multiplicative noise with long jumps. Probability density distributions converge with time to a distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Tomasz Srokowski

The superstatistics concept is a useful statistical method to describe inhomogeneous complex systems for which a system parameter $\beta$ fluctuates on a large spatio-temporal scale. In this paper we analyze a measured time series of wind…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-22 Erik Van der Straeten , Christian Beck

We analyze a specific class of random systems that are driven by a symmetric L\'{e}vy stable noise. In view of the L\'{e}vy noise sensitivity to the confining "potential landscape" where jumps take place (in other words, to environmental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Zaba , P. Garbaczewski , V. Stephanovich

We study the convergence to equilibrium of an underdamped Langevin equation that is controlled by a linear feedback force. Specifically, we are interested in sampling the possibly multimodal invariant probability distribution of a Langevin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Tobias Breiten , Carsten Hartmann , Lara Neureither , Upanshu Sharma

We consider a novel model of stochastic replicator dynamics for potential games that converts to a Langevin equation on a sphere after a change of variables. This is distinct from the models studied earlier. In particular, it is ill-posed…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Vivek S. Borkar

We analyze confining mechanisms for L\'{e}vy flights. When they evolve in suitable external potentials their variance may exist and show signatures of a superdiffusive transport. Two classes of stochastic jump - type processes are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Piotr Garbaczewski , Vladimir Stephanovich

We consider a trait-structured population subject to mutation, birth and competition of logistic type, where the number of coexisting types may fluctuate. Applying a limit of rare mutations to this population while keeping the population…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Nicolas Champagnat , Amaury Lambert

The behavior of the self diffusion constant of Langevin particles interacting via a pairwise interaction is considered. The diffusion constant is calculated approximately within a perturbation theory in the potential strength about the bare…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Dean , A. Lefèvre

Diffusive motion is a fundamental transport mechanism in physical and biological systems, governing dynamics across a wide range of scales -- from molecular transport to animal foraging. In many complex systems, however, diffusion deviates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Takuma Akimoto , Jae-Hyung Jeon , Ralf Metzler , Tomoshige Miyaguchi , Takashi Uneyama , Eiji Yamamoto

Recent rapid advances in single particle tracking and supercomputing techniques resulted in an unprecedented abundance of diffusion data exhibiting complex behaviours, such the presence of power law tails of the msd and memory functions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-08 Jakub Ślęzak

Panic may spread over a crowd in a similar fashion as contagious diseases do in social groups. People no exposed to a panic source may express fear, alerting others of imminent danger. This social mechanism initiates an evacuation process,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-18 F. E. Cornes , G. A. Frank , C. O. Dorso

We study a discrete-time interacting particle system with continuous state space which is motivated by a mathematical model for turnover through branching in actin filament networks. It gives rise to transient clusters reminiscent of actin…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Cecilia González-Tokman , Dietmar B. Oelz

We consider stochastic systems involving general -- non-Gaussian and asymmetric -- stable processes. The random quantities, either a stochastic force or a waiting time in a random walk process, explicitly depend on the position. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tomasz Srokowski

We study binary state contagion dynamics on a social network where nodes act in response to the average state of their neighborhood. We model the competing tendencies of imitation and non-conformity by incorporating an off-threshold into…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-13 Kameron Decker Harris