Non-Gaussian random walks
- 21 August 1987
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 20 (12) , 4055-4059
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/20/12/052
Abstract
The authors present an explicit expression for the probability distribution for the position of a continuous-time random walker in an arbitrary number of dimensions when the interjump density has a long time tail, in contrast to earlier results which require numerical inversion of a Fourier integral. They replace this numerical procedure by one that relies on the method of steepest descents. Their results are applied to diffusion on a comb and on a percolation cluster generated on a Cayley tree at criticality and are confirmed numerically.Keywords
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