First Steps in Random Walks : From Tools to Applications.
The name ""random walk"" for a problem of a displacement of a point in a sequence of independent random steps was coined by Karl Pearson in 1905 in a question posed to readers of ""Nature"". The same year, a similar problem was formulated by Albert Einstein in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Characteristic functions
- 2. Generating functions and applications
- 3. Continuous-time random walks
- 4. CTRW and aging phenomena
- 5. Master equations
- 6. Fractional diffusion and Fokker-Planck equations for subdiffusion
- 7. Lévy flights
- 8. Coupled CTRW and Lévy walks
- 9. Simple reactions : A+B->B
- 10. Random walks on percolation structures.