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Starting from a master equation, we derive the evolution equation for the size distribution of elements in an evolving system, where each element can grow, divide into two, and produce new elements. We then probe general solutions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-05 Segun Goh , H. W. Kwon , M. Y. Choi , Jean-Yves Fortin

Logarithmic growth-rates are fundamental observables for describing ecological systems and the characterization of their distributions with analytical techniques can greatly improve their comprehension. Here a neutral model based on a…

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Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-01 Ayanendranath Basu , Abhijit Mandal , Nirian Martin , Leandro Pardo

We consider stochastic systems of interacting particles or agents, with dynamics determined by an interaction kernel which only depends on pairwise distances. We study the problem of inferring this interaction kernel from observations of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Fei Lu , Mauro Maggioni , Sui Tang

Mathematical models are formal and simplified representations of the knowledge related to a phenomenon. In classical epidemic models, a neglected aspect is the heterogeneity of disease transmission and progression linked to the viral load…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-10 Rossella Della Marca , Nadia Loy , Andrea Tosin

Levy walk (LW) process has been used as a simple model for describing anomalous diffusion in which the mean squared displacement of the walker grows non-linearly with time in contrast to the diffusive motion described by simple random walks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Santanu Das , Anupam Kundu

Networks with stochastic variables described by heavy tailed lognormal distribution are ubiquitous in nature, and hence they deserve an exact information-theoretic characterization. We derive analytical formulas for mutual information…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-23 Maurycy Chwiłka , Jan Karbowski

Quantum Monte Carlo data are often afflicted with distributions that resemble lognormal probability distributions and consequently their statistical analysis can not be based on simple Gaussian assumptions. To this extent a method is…

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We study numerically and analytically the moments of the dimensionless level curvature for one-dimensional disordered rings of the circumference L pierced by a magnetic flux. The negative moments of the curvature distribution can be…

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In this paper, we perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the random packing of spheres with different particle size distributions. In particular, we deal with non-Gaussian distributions by means of the L\'evy distributions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Carlos Handrey Araujo Ferraz

Studies on random packing of bidispersive particles have shown that such systems can capture the underlying behavior of more complex phenomena found in physics and materials engineering. In industry, bidispersive particles are used to allow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-22 Carlos Handrey Araujo Ferraz

Multivariate Distributions are needed to capture the correlation structure of complex systems. In previous works, we developed a Random Matrix Model for such correlated multivariate joint probability density functions that accounts for the…

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We propose new analytical tools for describing growth-rate distributions generated by stationary time-series. Our analysis shows how deviations from normality are not pathological behaviour, as suggested by some traditional views, but…

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We establish a connection between tagged particles and size-biased empirical processes in interacting particle systems, in analogy to classical results on the propagation of chaos. In a mean-field scaling limit, the evolution of the…

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Effects of randomness on non-integer power law tails in multiplicatively interacting stochastic processes are investigated theoretically. Generally, randomness causes decrease of the exponent of tails and the growth rate of processes.…

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Many astronomical phenomena, including Fast Radio Bursts and Soft Gamma Repeaters, consist of brief, separated, seemingly aperiodic events. The intervals between these events vary randomly, but there are epochs of greater activity, with…

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A collection of $N$-diffusing interacting particles where each particle belongs to one of $K$ different populations is considered. Evolution equation for a particle from population $k$ depends on the $K$ empirical measures of particle…

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The paper investigates the properties of a class of resource allocation algorithms for communication networks: if a node of this network has $x$ requests to transmit, then it receives a fraction of the capacity proportional to…

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