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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klafter, J.
Otros Autores: Sokolov, I. M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.