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Single integro-differential wave equation for L\'evy walk

Statistical Mechanics 2016-02-10 v2

Abstract

The integro-differential wave equation for the probability density function for a classical one-dimensional L\'evy walk with continuous sample paths has been derived. This equation involves a classical wave operator together with memory integrals describing the spatio-temporal coupling of the L\'evy walk. It is valid for any running time PDF and it does not involve any long-time large-scale approximations. It generalizes the well-known telegraph equation obtained from the persistent random walk. Several non-Markovian cases are considered when the particle's velocity alternates at the gamma and power-law distributed random times.

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@article{arxiv.1508.04995,
  title  = {Single integro-differential wave equation for L\'evy walk},
  author = {Sergei Fedotov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.04995},
  year   = {2016}
}

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