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245 0 0 _aFirst-passage phenomena and their applications /
_c[edited by] Ralf Metzler, Gleb Oshanin and Sidney Redner.
260 _aSingapore :
_bWorld Scientific,
_c©2014.
300 _axi, 595 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _a1. 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 [and others] -- 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.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aStatistical mechanics
_xStudy and teaching (Graduate)
650 0 _aStochastic processes
_xStudy and teaching (Graduate)
650 0 _aRandom walks (Mathematics)
_xStudy and teaching (Graduate)
700 1 _aMetzler, Ralf,
_eeditor
700 1 _aOshanin, Gleb,
_eeditor
700 1 _aRedner, Sidney,
_eeditor
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