First-passage phenomena and their applications /

The book contains review articles on recent advances in first-passage phenomena and applications contributed by leading international experts. It is intended for graduate students and researchers who are interested in learning about this intriguing and important topic.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Metzler, Ralf (Editor ), Oshanin, G. (Gleb) (Editor ), Redner, Sidney, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]
Temas:
Statistical mechanics > Study and teaching (Graduate)
Stochastic processes > Study and teaching (Graduate)
Random walks (Mathematics) > Study and teaching (Graduate)
Mécanique statistique > Étude et enseignement (2e et 3e cycles)
Processus stochastiques > Étude et enseignement (2e et 3e cycles)
Marches aléatoires (Mathématiques) > Étude et enseignement (2e et 3e cycles)
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Arrival statistics and exploration properties of mortal walkers / S.B. Yuste, E. Abad and K. Lindenberg
  • 2. First passage of a randomly accelerated particle / T.W. Burkhardt
  • 3. First passage problems in anomalous diffusion / A. Rosso and A. Zoia
  • 4. First-passage times of intermittent random walks / O. Benichou and R. Voituriez
  • 5. First-passage phenomena on finite inhomogeneous networks / E. Agliari and D. Cassi
  • 6. Effective spectral dimension in scale-free networks / S. Hwang, D.-S. Lee and B. Kahng
  • 7. First-passage statistics for random walks in bounded domains / R. Voituriez and O. Benichou
  • 8. First passage behavior of multi-dimensional fractional Brownian motion and application to reaction phenomena / J.-H. Jeon, A.V. Chechkin and R. Metzler
  • 9. Trajectory-to-trajectory fluctuations in first-passage phenomena in bounded domains / T.G. Mattos [and others]
  • 10. Exact record and order statistics of random walks via first-passage ideas / G. Schehr and S.N. Majumdar
  • 11. First passage in conical geometry and ordering of Brownian particles / E. Ben-Naim and P.L. Krapivsky
  • 12. First passage time problems in biophysical jump processes with fast kinetics / P.C. Bressloff and J.M. Newby
  • 13. First passage problems in biology / T. Chou and M.R. D'Orsogna
  • 14. The effect of detection mechanisms on spatial search and foraging / D. Campos and V. Mendez
  • 15. Search in random media with Levy flights / E. Gelenbe and O.H. Abdelrahman
  • 16. Exit strategies: Visual search and the quitting time problem / T.S. Horowitz
  • 17. Statistical physics of evolutionary trajectories on fitness landscapes / M. Manhart and A.V. Morozov
  • 18. Some applications of first-passage ideas to finance / R. Chicheportiche and J.-P. Bouchaud
  • 19. First-passage and extremes in socio-economic systems / J. Masoliver and J. Perello
  • 20. Transport and the first passage time problem with application to cold atoms in optical traps / E. Barkai and D.A. Kessler
  • 21. The excursion set theory in cosmology / M. Maggiore and A. Riotto
  • 22. Self-organized escape processes of linear chains in nonlinear potentials / T. Gross, D. Hennig and L. Schimansky-Geier
  • 23. Efficient Monte Carlo methods for simulating diffusion-reaction processes in complex systems / D.S. Grebenkov.

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