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The stationary distribution of a sample taken from a Wright-Fisher diffusion with general small mutation rates is found using a coalescent approach. The approximation is equivalent to having at most one mutation in the coalescent tree to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-31 Conrad J. Burden , Robert C. Griffiths

We analyze a one-dimensional intermittent random walk on an unbounded domain in the presence of stochastic resetting. In this process, the walker alternates between local intensive search, diffusion, and rapid ballistic relocations in which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-31 Rosa Flaquer-Galmés , Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez

Among Markovian processes, the hallmark of L\'evy flights is superdiffusion, or faster-than-Brownian dynamics. Here we show that L\'evy laws, as well as Gaussians, can also be the limit distributions of processes with long range memory that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-10 Denis Boyer , Inti Pineda

In the spirit of [Surya07'], we develop an average problem approach to prove the optimality of threshold type strategies for optimal stopping of L\'evy models with a continuous additive functional (CAF) discounting. Under spectrally…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2018-08-21 Mingsi Long , Hongzhong Zhang

We consider a problem of finding a target located in a finite $d$-dimensional domain, using $N$ independent random walkers, when partial information on the target location is given as a probability distribution. When $N$ is large, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-17 Sunghan Ro , Yong Woon Kim

Bird migration is an adaptive behavior ultimately aiming at optimizing survival and reproductive success. We propose an optimal switching model to study bird migration, where birds' migration behaviors can be efficiently modeled as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Jiawei Chu , King-Yeung Lam , Boyu Wang , Tong Wang

This paper develops near-optimal sustainable harvesting strategies for the predator in a predator-prey system. The objective function is of long-run average per unit time type. To date, ecological systems under environmental noise are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Dang H. Nguyen , George Yin

This paper investigates the application of Diffusion Policy in non-stationary, vision-based RL settings, specifically targeting environments where task dynamics and objectives evolve over time. Our work is grounded in practical challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Gunbir Singh Baveja

When navigating complex environments, animals often combine multiple strategies to mitigate the effects of external disturbances. These modalities often correspond to different sources of information, leading to speed-accuracy trade-offs.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-19 Francesco Mori , L. Mahadevan

This paper investigates a class of stochastic Logistic harvesting models driven by tempered stable processes, with a one-sided power-law L\'evy measure. We establish threshold conditions for population extinction and persistence, prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Wenmin Deng , Fu Zhang

The L\'evy walk, a type of random walk characterized by linear step lengths that follow a power-law distribution, is observed in the migratory behaviors of various organisms, ranging from bacteria to humans. Notably, L\'evy walks with power…

Foraging is a fundamental behavior as animals' search for food is crucial for their survival. Patch leaving is a canonical foraging behavior, but classic theoretical conceptions of patch leaving decisions lack some key naturalistic details.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-23 Zachary P Kilpatrick , Jacob D Davidson , Ahmed El Hady

In this paper, we investigate an optimal design problem motivated by some issues arising in population dynamics. In a nutshell, we aim at determining the optimal shape of a region occupied by resources for maximizing the survival ability of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-08 Fabien Caubet , Thibaut Deheuvels , Yannick Privat

We consider random search processes alternating stochastically between diffusion and ballistic motion, in which the distribution function of ballistic motion directions varies from point to point in space. The specific space dependence of…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-29 Karsten Schwarz , Yannick Schröder , Bin Qu , Markus Hoth , Heiko Rieger

The spectral theory of random walks on networks of arbitrary topology can be readily extended to study random walks and L\'evy flights subject to resetting on these structures. When a discrete-time process is stochastically brought back…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-22 Alejandro P. Riascos , Denis Boyer , José L. Mateos

We consider the motion of an overdamped particle in a periodic potential lacking spatial symmetry under the influence of symmetric L\'evy noise, being a minimal setup for a ``L\'evy ratchet.'' Due to the non-thermal character of the L\'evy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Dybiec , E. Gudowska-Nowak , I. M. Sokolov

We demonstrate that the Fokker-Planck equation can be generalized into a 'Fractional Fokker-Planck' equation, i.e. an equation which includes fractional space differentiations, in order to encompass the wide class of anomalous diffusions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. V. Yanovsky , A. V. Chechkin , D. Schertzer , A. V. Tour

We consider active Brownian particles that intermittently switch between active and inactive states. Such behavior is ubiquitous at all scales, from bacteria to animals and in artificial active systems. We derive exact expressions for key…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fernando Peruani , Debasish Chaudhuri

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 introduce a strategy of navigation in undirected networks, including regular, random, and complex networks, that is inspired by L\'evy random walks, generalizing previous navigation rules. We obtained exact expressions for the stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-22 A. P. Riascos , José L. Mateos