First passage times for a generalized telegrapher's equation

Jaume Masoliver and George H. Weiss

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1992, vol. 183, issue 4, 537-548

Abstract: All definitions and analyses of the one-dimensional telegrapher's equation assume an underlying translational invariant space. We here generalize this model to allow for non-uniform spatial properties, and derive the form of the backward equation and the associated boundary conditions in the presence of trapping points. We show that moments of the first-passage time till trapping can be calculated in closed form from a formalism based on the backward equation.

Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(92)90299-6

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