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We consider the model of branching Brownian motion with a single catalytic point at the origin and binary branching. We establish some fine results for the asymptotic behaviour of the numbers of particles travelling at different speeds and…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Sergey Bocharov

The extreme value statistics of active matter offer significant insight into their unique properties. A phase transition has recently been reported in a model of branching run-and-tumble particles, describing the spatial spreading of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-11 Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine , Asaf Miron

Standard diffusion equation is based on Brownian motion of the dispersing species without considering persistence in the movement of the individuals. This description allows for the instantaneous spreading of the transported species over an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-07-13 Pushpita Ghosh , Deb Shankar Ray

We employ a generalization of Einstein's random walk paradigm for diffusion to derive a class of multidimensional degenerate nonlinear parabolic equations in non-divergence form. Specifically, in these equations, the diffusion coefficient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Ivan C. Christov , Isanka Garli Hevage , Akif Ibraguimov , Rahnuma Islam

We investigate the long-time behavior of a $d-$dimensional supercritical branching Brownian motion with a compactly supported branching potential. It is known that, for $\mathbf{v}\in \mathbb{R}^d$, all the moments of the normalized number…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Pratima Hebbar , Leonid Koralov

We investigate wave propagation in rotationally symmetric tubes with a periodic spatial modulation of cross section. Using an asymptotic perturbation analysis, the governing quasi two-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation can be reduced…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-05 A. Ziepke , S. Martens , H. Engel

In this paper we revisit the Brownian motion on the basis of {the fractional Langevin equation which turns out to be a particular case of the generalized Langevin equation introduced by Kubo in 1966. The importance of our approach is to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-21 Francesco Mainardi , Antonio Mura , Francesco Tampieri

We suggest a governing equation which describes the process of polymer chain translocation through a narrow pore and reconciles the seemingly contradictory features of such dynamics: (i) a Gaussian probability distribution of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-02-15 Johan L. A. Dubbeldam , V. G. Rostiashvili , A. Milchev , T. A. Vilgis

Stretched-exponential relaxation is a widely observed phenomenon found in ordered ferromagnets as well as glassy systems. One modeling approach connects this behavior to a droplet dynamics described by an effective Langevin equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-21 Lucianno Defaveri , Eli Barkai , David A. Kessler

We present probabilistic interpretations of solutions to semi-linear parabolic equations with polynomial nonlinearities in terms of the voting models on the genealogical trees of branching Brownian motion (BBM). These extend the connection…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Jing An , Christopher Henderson , Lenya Ryzhik

Recent theoretical work has shown that so-called pulled fronts propagating into an unstable state always converge very slowly to their asymptotic speed and shape. In the the light of these predictions, we reanalyze earlier experiments by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Kockelkoren , Cornelis Storm , Wim van Saarloos

This paper presents results on the unboundedness and minimal speed of traveling wave solutions for a one-dimensional spatial reaction-diffusion equation with an asymptotically linear reaction term and a saturation parameter. By applying a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Yu Ichida

The mean first passage time (MFPT) is a key metric for understanding transport, search, and escape processes in stochastic systems. While well characterized for passive Brownian particles, its behavior in active systems-such as active…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-22 Sarafa A. Iyaniwura , Zhiwei Peng

Brownian motion, as one of the most fundamental concepts in statistical physics, has everlasting interests in interdisciplinary fields in the past century. Although this motion with static potentials have been widely explored, its physics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Boxuan Han , Zeyu Rao , Ming Gong

We focus on the dynamics of a Brownian particle whose mass fluctuates. First we show that the behaviour is similar to that of a Brownian particle moving in a fluctuating medium, as studied by Beck [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 180601]. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Lambiotte , M. Ausloos

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 study a Brownian motion with drift in a wedge of angle $\beta$ which is obliquely reflected on each edge along angles $\varepsilon$ and $\delta$. We assume that the classical parameter $\alpha=\frac{\delta+\varepsilon - \pi}{\beta}$ is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Jules Flin , Sandro Franceschi

In recent years several local extrema based methodologies have been proposed to investigate either the nonlinear or the nonstationary time series for scaling analysis. In the present work we study systematically the distribution of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-24 Yongxiang Huang , Lipo Wang , F. G. Schmitt , Xiaobo Zheng , Nan Jiang , Yulu Liu

We address the problem of a front propagation in chains with a bi-stable nondegenerate on-site potential and a nonlinear gradient coupling. For a generic nonlinear coupling, one encounters a special regime of transitions, characterized by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-14 I. B. Shiroky , O. V. Gendelman

We give sufficient conditions for the existence of positive travelling wave solutions for multi-dimensional autonomous reaction-diffusion systems with distributed delay. To prove the existence of travelling waves, we give an abstract…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Teresa Faria , Sergei Trofimchuk