First-Passage Phenomena and Their Applications

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Ralf Metzler, Gleb Oshanin, Sidney Redner
World Scientific, 21.03.2014 - 608 Seiten

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.

 

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1 Arrival Statistics and Exploration Properties of Mortal Walkers
1
2 First Passage of a Randomly Accelerated Particle
21
3 First Passage Problems in Anomalous Diffusion
45
4 FirstPassage Times of Intermittent Random Walks
70
5 FirstPassage Phenomena on Finite Inhomogeneous Networks
96
6 Effective Spectral Dimension in ScaleFree Networks
122
7 FirstPassage Statistics for Random Walks in Bounded Domains
145
8 First Passage Behavior of MultiDimensional Fractional Brownian Motion and Application to Reaction Phenomena
175
13 First Passage Problems in Biology
306
14 The Effect of Detection Mechanisms on Spatial Search and Foraging
346
15 Search in Random Media with Levy Flights
366
Visual Search and the Quitting Time Problem
390
17 Statistical Physics of Evolutionary Trajectories on Fitness Landscapes
416
18 Some Applications of FirstPassage Ideas to Finance
447
19 FirstPassage and Extremes in SocioEconomic Systems
477
20 Transport and the First Passage Time Problem with Application to Cold Atoms in Optical Traps
502

9 TrajectorytoTrajectory Fluctuations in FirstPassage Phenomena in Bounded Domains
203
10 Exact Record and Order Statistics of Random Walks via FirstPassage Ideas
226
11 First Passage in Conical Geometry and Ordering of Brownian Particles
252
12 First Passage Time Problems in Biophysical Jump Processes with Fast Kinetics
277
21 The Excursion Set Theory in Cosmology
532
22 SelfOrganized Escape Processes of Linear Chains in Nonlinear Potentials
554
23 Efficient Monte Carlo Methods for Simulating DiffusionReaction Processes in Complex Systems
571
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