Random flights related to the Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation

2014/11/03 by Garra, R., Orsingher, E. · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1411.0648

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the analysis of random motions on the line and in the space R^d (d > 1) performed at finite velocity and governed by a non-homogeneous Poisson process with rate λ(t). The explicit distributions p(x,t) of the position of the randomly moving particles are obtained solving initial-value problems for the Euler- Poisson-Darboux equation when λ(t) = α/t, t > 0. We consider also the case where λ(t) = λcoth λt and λ(t) = λtanh λt, where some Riccati differential equations emerge and the explicit distributions are obtained for d = 1. We also examine planar random motions with random velocities by projecting random flights in R^d onto the plane. Finally the case of planar motions with four orthogonal directions is considered and the corresponding higher-order equations with time-varying coefficients obtained.

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