Title First-passage phenomena and their applications / editors ; Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam, Germany, Tampere University of Technology, Finalnd, Gleb Oshanin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, Sidney Redner, Boston University, USA.

Publication Info.	New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]
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Description	1 online resource (xi, 595 pages) : illustrations
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Contents	1. 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.
Summary	The 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.
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Subject	Statistical mechanics -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
	Statistical mechanics.
	Stochastic processes -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
	Stochastic processes.
	Random walks (Mathematics) -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
	Random walks (Mathematics)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Metzler, Ralf, editor of compilation.
	Oshanin, G. (Gleb), editor of compilation.
	Redner, Sidney, 1951- editor of compilation.
Other Form:	Print version: First-passage phenomena and their applications. New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014] 9789814590280 (DLC) 2013048239 (OCoLC)866252720
ISBN	9789814590297 (electronic book)
	9814590290 (electronic book)
	9789814590280
	9814590282

Title First-passage phenomena and their applications / editors ; Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam, Germany, Tampere University of Technology, Finalnd, Gleb Oshanin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France, Sidney Redner, Boston University, USA.

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