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Burgers' equation with fixed Dirichlet boundary conditions is considered on generic bounded intervals. By using the Hopf-Cole transformation and the exact operational solution recently established for linear reaction-diffusion equations…

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We propose an analytical method for understanding the problem of multi-channel electron transfer reaction in solution, modeled by a particle undergoing diffusive motion under the influence of one donor and several acceptor potentials. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Aniruddha Chakraborty

We present an exact solution of the discrete wormlike chain (DWLC) model describing a single semiflexible polymer under arbitrary external force. Through exact closure relations between pair angular correlations and single-site angular…

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The fundamental understanding of loop formation of long polymer chains in solution has been an important thread of research for several theoretical and experimental studies. Loop formations are important phenomenological parameters in many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-17 Moumita Ganguly , Anirudhha Chakraborty

A new asymptotic method is presented for the analysis of the traveling waves in the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system with the diffusion with a finite velocity and Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov kinetics. The analysis makes use of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Fedotov

A new class of relativistic diffusions encompassing all the previously studied examples has recently been introduced by C. Chevalier and F. Debbasch, both in a heuristic and analytic way. A pathwise approach of these processes is proposed…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-03 Ismael Bailleul

We propose a variety of models of random walk, discrete in space and time, suitable for simulating stable random variables of arbitrary index $\alpha$ ($0< \alpha \le 2$), in the symmetric case. We show that by properly scaled transition to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rudolf Gorenflo , Gianni De Fabritiis , Francesco Mainardi

We present an exact solution to the Boltzmann equation which describes a system undergoing boost-invariant longitudinal and azimuthally symmetric radial expansion for arbitrary shear viscosity to entropy density ratio. This new solution is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-30 Gabriel S. Denicol , Ulrich W. Heinz , Mauricio Martinez , Jorge Noronha , Michael Strickland

We study probability density functions that are log-concave. Despite the space of all such densities being infinite-dimensional, the maximum likelihood estimate is the exponential of a piecewise linear function determined by finitely many…

Diffusion of particles in complex fluids and gels is difficult to describe and often lies beyond the scope of the classical Stokes-Einstein relation. One of the main lines of research over the past few decades has sought to relate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Władysław Sokołowski , Huma Jamil , Karol Makuch

We present a new random walk for uniformly sampling high-dimensional convex bodies. It achieves state-of-the-art runtime complexity with stronger guarantees on the output than previously known, namely in R\'enyi divergence (which implies…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yunbum Kook , Santosh S. Vempala , Matthew S. Zhang

Exact analytic solution for the probability distribution function of the non-inertial rotational diffusion equation, i.e., of the Smoluchowski one, in a symmetric Maier-Saupe uniaxial potential of mean torque is obtained via the confluent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. E. Sitnitsky

A correlated random walk approach to diffusion is applied to the disordered nonoverlapping Lorentz gas. By invoking the Lu-Torquato theory for chord-length distributions in random media [J. Chem. Phys. 98, 6472 (1993)], an analytic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-16 Artur B. Adib

A simple analytical method for solving intra-molecular reactions of polymer chain in dilute solution is formulated. The physical problem of looping can be modeled mathematically with the use of a Smoluchowski-like equation with a Dirac…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-25 Moumita Ganguly , Aniruddha Chakraborty

For certain materials science scenarios arising in rubber technology, one-dimensional moving boundary problems (MBPs) with kinetic boundary conditions are capable of unveiling the large-time behavior of the diffusants penetration front,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Surendra Nepal , Magnus Ogren , Yosief Wondmagegne , Adrian Muntean

We consider the one-dimensional diffusion of a particle on a semi-infinite line and in a piecewise linear random potential. We first present a new formalism which yields an analytical expression for the Green function of the Fokker-Planck…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Petr Chvosta , Noelle Pottier

In continuum one-dimensional space, a coupled directed continuous time random walk model is proposed, where the random walker jumps toward one direction and the waiting time between jumps affects the subsequent jump. In the proposed model,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-20 Long Shi , Zuguo Yu , Zhi Mao , Aiguo Xiao

This paper aims at obtaining, by means of integral transforms, analytical approximations in short times of solutions to boundary value problems for the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation with constant coefficients. The general form…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-23 Anani Kwassi

We construct nontrivial entire solutions for a bistable reaction-diffusion equation in a class of domains that are unbounded in one direction. The motivation comes from recent results of Berestycki, Bouhours, and Chapuisat concerning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Antoine Pauthier

We study a random walk infiltration (RWI) model, in homogeneous and in fractal media, with localized sources at their boundaries. The particles released at a source, which is maintained at a constant density, execute unbiased random walks…

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