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The first passage time (FPT) for random walks is a key indicator of how fast information diffuses in a given system. Despite the role of FPT as a fundamental feature in transport phenomena, its behavior, particularly in heterogeneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Hwang , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng

Many biological, social, and communication systems can be modeled by ``searchers'' moving through a complex network. For example, intracellular cargo is transported on tubular networks, news and rumors spread through online social networks,…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-04 Sean D Lawley

Network embedding aims to represent a network into a low dimensional space where the network structural information and inherent properties are maximumly preserved. Random walk based network embedding methods such as DeepWalk and node2vec…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiawei Shen , Xincheng Shu , Hu Yang

How long does it take a random walker to reach a given target point? This quantity, known as a first passage time (FPT), has led to a growing number of theoretical investigations over the last decade1. The importance of FPTs originates from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Condamin , O. Benichou , V. Tejedor , R. Voituriez , J. Klafter

We use the recently introduced small-world networks (SWN) to model cross-linked polymers, as an extension of the linear Rouse-chain. We study the SWN-dynamics under the influence of external forces. Our focus is on the structurally and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Jespersen , I. M. Sokolov , A. Blumen

The continuous-time random walk (CTRW) model is useful for alleviating the computational burden of simulating diffusion in actual media. In principle, isotropic CTRW only requires knowledge of the step-size, $P_l$, and waiting-time, $P_t$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-19 Shahar Amitai , Raphael Blumenfeld

This paper introduces two new closely related betweenness centrality measures based on the Randomized Shortest Paths (RSP) framework, which fill a gap between traditional network centrality measures based on shortest paths and more recent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Ilkka Kivimäki , Bertrand Lebichot , Jari Saramäki , Marco Saerens

Dynamical scalings for the end-to-end distance $R_{ee}$ and the number of distinct visited nodes $N_v$ of random walks (RWs) on finite scale-free networks (SFNs) are studied numerically. $\left< R_{ee} \right>$ shows the dynamical scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sungmin Lee , Soon-Hyung Yook , Yup Kim

We propose a consistent approach to the statistics of the shortest paths in random graphs with a given degree distribution. This approach goes further than a usual tree ansatz and rigorously accounts for loops in a network. We calculate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-05 S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes , A. N. Samukhin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate several analytical methods of solving first passage (FP) problem for the Rouse model, a simplest model of a polymer chain. We show that this problem has to be treated as a multi-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 Jing Cao , Jian Zhu , Zuowei Wang , Alexei E. Likhtman

How much time does it take for a fluctuating system, such as a polymer chain, to reach a target configuration that is rarely visited -- typically because of a high energy cost ? This question generally amounts to the determination of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-18 Nicolas Levernier , Olivier Bénichou , Raphaël Voituriez , Thomas Guérin

In this paper, by using two different techniques we derive an explicit formula for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) between any pair of nodes on a general undirected network, which is expressed in terms of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-04 Zhongzhi Zhang , Alafate Julaiti , Baoyu Hou , Hongjuan Zhang , Guanrong Chen

In this paper, we study random walks on a small-world scale-free network, also called as pseudofractal scale-free web (PSFW), and analyze the volatilities of first passage time (FPT) and first return time (FRT) by using the variance and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-21 Junhao Peng

We investigate the dynamics of a particle executing a general Continuous Time Random Walk (CTRW) in three dimensions under the influence of arbitrary time-varying external fields. Contrary to the general approach in recent works, our method…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-15 Shovan Dutta , Subhankar Ray , J. Shamanna

For random walks on networks (graphs), it is a theoretical challenge to explicitly determine the mean first-passage time (MFPT) between two nodes averaged over all pairs. In this paper, we study the MFPT of random walks in the famous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-27 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yuan Lin , Shuigeng Zhou , Bin Wu , Jihong Guan

We propose an approximation for the first return time distribution of random walks on undirected networks. We combine a message-passing solution with a mean-field approximation, to account for the short- and long-term behaviours…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Erik Hormann , Renaud Lambiotte , George T. Cantwell

We introduce a non-equilibrium discrete-time random walk model on multiplex networks, in which at each time step the walker first undergoes a random jump between neighboring nodes in the same layer, and then tries to hop from one node to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-18 Feng Huang , Hanshuang Chen

We consider random walks on discrete state spaces, such as general undirected graphs, where the random walkers are designed to approximate a target quantity over the network topology via sampling and neighborhood exploration in the form of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Vishwaraj Doshi , Jie Hu , Do Young Eun

Graphs are commonly used to model various complex systems, including social networks, power grids, transportation networks, and biological systems. In many applications, the connectivity of these networks can be expressed through the Mean…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Christian P. C. Franssen , Alessandro Zocca , Bernd F. Heidergott

We study the survival probability and the growth rate for branching random walks in random environment (BRWRE). The particles perform simple symmetric random walks on the $d$-dimensional integer lattice, while at each time unit, they split…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-06 Francis Comets , Nobuo Yoshida