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We present a heuristic derivation of the first passage time exponent for the integral of a random walk [Y. G. Sinai, Theor. Math. Phys. {\bf 90}, 219 (1992)]. Building on this derivation, we construct an estimation scheme to understand the…

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In many random search processes of interest in chemistry, biology or during rescue operations, an entity must find a specific target site before the latter becomes inactive, no longer available for reaction or lost. We present exact results…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-16 Denis Boyer , Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez , Satya N. Majumdar , Grégory Schehr

Random walk is a fundamental concept with applications ranging from quantum physics to econometrics. Remarkably, one specific model of random walks appears to be ubiquitous across many fields as a tool to analyze transport phenomena in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. Zaburdaev , S. Denisov , J. Klafter

In this paper we show the existence and form uniqueness of a solution for multidimensional backward stochastic differential equations driven by a multidimensional L\'{e}vy process with moments of all orders. The results are important from a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-02-01 Jianzhong Lin

Fractional Fokker-Planck equation plays an important role in describing anomalous dynamics. To the best of our knowledge, the existing discussions mainly focus on this kind of equation involving one diffusion operator. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Jing Sun , Weihua Deng , Daxin Nie

We discuss diffusion properties of a dynamical system, which is characterised by long-tail distributions and finite correlations. The particle velocity has the stable L\'evy distribution; it is assumed as a jumping process (the kangaroo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-21 Tomasz Srokowski

We analyze a class of linear partial differential equations that arise as deterministic descriptions of the scaling limits of L\'evy walks, in which transport is driven by a convex combination of fractional material derivatives and a source…

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An efficient discrete time and space Markov chain approximation employing a Brownian bridge correction for computing curvilinear boundary crossing probabilities for general diffusion processes was recently proposed in Liang and Borovkov…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Vincent Liang , Konstantin Borovkov

The L\'evy, jumping process, defined in terms of the jumping size distribution and the waiting time distribution, is considered. The jumping rate depends on the process value. The fractional diffusion equation, which contains the variable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-10 Tomasz Srokowski

L\'{e}vy walk is a practical model and has wide applications in various fields. Here we focus on the effect of an external constant force on the L\'{e}vy walk with the exponent of the power-law distributed flight time $\alpha\in(0,2)$. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yao Chen , Xudong Wang , Weihua Deng

The Feynman-Kac formula provides a way to understand solutions to elliptic partial differential equations in terms of expectations of continuous time Markov processes. This connection allows for the creation of numerical schemes for…

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The score function for the diffusion process, also known as the gradient of the log-density, is a basic concept to characterize the probability flow with important applications in the score-based diffusion generative modelling and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yuanfei Huang , Chengyu Liu , Xiang Zhou

Anomalous diffusion and L\'evy flights, which are characterized by the occurrence of random discrete jumps of all scales, have been observed in a plethora of natural and engineered systems, ranging from the motion of molecules to climate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Chunxi Jiao , Georg A. Gottwald

Anomalous (or non-Fickian) diffusion has been widely found in fluid reactive transport and the traditional advection diffusion reaction equation based on Fickian diffusion is proved to be inadequate to predict this anomalous transport of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Hong Zhang , Guo-Hua Li

The paper presents a multidimensional model for nonlinear Markovian random walks that generalizes one we developed previously (Phys. Rev. E v.79, 011110, 2009) in order to describe the Levy type stochastic processes in terms of continuous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ihor Lubashevsky , Rudolf Friedrich , Andreas Heuer

We analyze a specific class of random systems that are driven by a symmetric L\'{e}vy stable noise, where Langevin representation is absent. In view of the L\'{e}vy noise sensitivity to environmental inhomogeneities, the pertinent random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mariusz Zaba , Piotr Garbaczewski , Vladimir Stephanovich

The escape probability is a deterministic concept that quantifies some aspects of stochastic dynamics. This issue has been investigated previously for dynamical systems driven by Gaussian Brownian motions. The present work considers escape…

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After a short excursion from discovery of Brownian motion to the Richardson "law of four thirds" in turbulent diffusion, the article introduces the L\'{e}vy flight superdiffusion as a self-similar L\'{e}vy process. The condition of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Dubkov , B. Spagnolo , V. V. Uchaikin

We prove a version of the Feynman-Kac formula for Levy processes and integro-differential operators, with application to the momentum representation of suitable quantum (Euclidean) systems whose Hamiltonians involve L\'{e}vy-type…

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