Continuous-time random walk with a superheavy-tailed distribution of waiting times

S. I. Denisov and H. Kantz
Phys. Rev. E 83, 041132 – Published 28 April 2011

Abstract

We study the long-time behavior of the probability density associated with the decoupled continuous-time random walk which is characterized by a superheavy-tailed distribution of waiting times. It is shown that, if the random walk is unbiased (biased) and the jump distribution has a finite second moment, then the properly scaled probability density converges in the long-time limit to a symmetric two-sided (an asymmetric one-sided) exponential density. The convergence occurs in such a way that all the moments of the probability density grow slower than any power of time. As a consequence, the reference random walk can be viewed as a generic model of superslow diffusion. A few examples of superheavy-tailed distributions of waiting times that give rise to qualitatively different laws of superslow diffusion are considered.

  • Received 13 February 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.83.041132

©2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

S. I. Denisov1,* and H. Kantz2

  • 1Sumy State University, Rimsky-Korsakov Street 2, UA-40007 Sumy, Ukraine
  • 2Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany

  • *denisov@sumdu.edu.ua

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Vol. 83, Iss. 4 — April 2011

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