Number of distinct sites visited by Lévy flights injected into a d-dimensional lattice

G. Berkolaiko and S. Havlin
Phys. Rev. E 57, 2549 – Published 1 March 1998
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Abstract

We study the average number of distinct sites SN0(t) visited by Lévy flights injected in the center of a lattice: N0 new particles appear in the center of the lattice at each time step. Lévy flights are particles which have the probability p(l)=Al(1+α),0<α<2 of making an l-length jump. We show analytically that the asymptotic form of SN0(t) is related to that of the case of constant initial number N of particles. We find that different ranges of α correspond to different limits, t and N, in the behavior of the number of sites visited by constant number of particles. The results obtained analytically are in good agreement with Monte Carlo simulations. We also discuss possible results for α>~2.

  • Received 9 January 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.57.2549

©1998 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

G. Berkolaiko1,2 and S. Havlin2

  • 1Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, G1 1XH Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • 2Minerva Center and Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel

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Vol. 57, Iss. 3 — March 1998

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