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PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
卷 302, 期 1-4, 页码 148-161出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(01)00461-7
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We consider a Levy flyer of order a that stalls from a point xo on an interval [0, L] with absorbing boundaries. We find a closed-form expression for an arbitrary average quantity, characterizing the trajectory of the flyer, such as mean first passage time, average total path length, probability to be absorbed by one of the boundaries. Using fractional differential equations with a Riesz kernel, we find exact analytical expressions for these quantities in the continuous limit. We find numerically the eigenfunctions and the eigenvalues of these equations. We study how the results of Monte-Carlo simulations of the Levy flights with different flight length distributions converge to the continuous approximations. We show that if x(0) is placed in the vicinity of absorbing boundaries, the average total path length has a minimum near alpha = 1, corresponding to the Cauchy distribution. We discuss the relevance of these results to the problem of biological foraging and transmission of light through cloudy atmosphere. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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