Deviation of the statistical fluctuation in heterogeneous anomalous diffusion

Yuichi Itto

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 462, issue C, 522-526

Abstract: The exponent of anomalous diffusion of virus in cytoplasm of a living cell is experimentally known to fluctuate depending on localized areas of the cytoplasm, indicating heterogeneity of diffusion. In a recent paper (Itto, 2012), a maximum-entropy-principle approach has been developed in order to propose an Ansatz for the statistical distribution of such exponent fluctuations. Based on this approach, here the deviation of the statistical distribution of the fluctuations from the proposed one is studied from the viewpoint of Einstein’s theory of fluctuations (of the thermodynamic quantities). This may present a step toward understanding the statistical property of the deviation. It is shown in a certain class of small deviations that the deviation obeys the multivariate Gaussian distribution.

Keywords: Heterogeneous anomalous diffusion; Statistical fluctuation; Deviation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.06.009

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