Lévy decoupled random walks

Miguel A. Ré, Carlos E. Budde and Domingo P. Prato

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, vol. 323, issue C, 9-18

Abstract: A diffusion model based on a continuous time random walk scheme with a separable transition probability density is introduced. The probability density for long jumps is proportional to x−1−γ (a Lévy-like probability density). Even when the probability density for the walker position at time t,P(x;t), has not a finite second moment when 0<γ<2, it is possible to consider alternative estimators for the width of the distribution. It is then found that any reasonable width estimator will exhibit the same long-time behaviour, since in this limit P(x;t) goes to the distribution Lγ(x/tα), a Lévy distribution. The scaling property is verified numerically by means of Monte Carlo simulations. We find that if the waiting time density has a finite first moment then α=1/γ, while for densities with asymptotic behaviour t−1−β with 0<β<1 (“long tail” densities) it is verified that α=β/γ. This scaling property ensures that any reasonable estimator of the distribution width will grow as tα in the long-time limit. Based on this long-time behaviour we propose a generalized criterion for the classification in superdiffusive and subdiffusive processes, according to the value of α.

Keywords: CTRW; Lévy distributions; Anomalous diffusion; Long time tails; Alternative estimators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00016-5

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