Screen LibraryFirst-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.
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9104#t=toc |
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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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xi,595pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789814590297 |
| Index Number: | QC174 |
| CLC: | O414.2-4 |
| Contents: | 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 ... [et al.] -- 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. |