Vicious Lévy flights

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2010-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2008v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 190601 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.190601

We study the statistics of encounters of L\'evy flights by introducing the concept of vicious L\'evy flights - distinct groups of walkers performing independent L\'evy flights with the process terminating upon the first encounter between walkers of different groups. We show that the probability that the process survives up to time $t$ decays as $t^{-\alpha}$ at late times. We compute $\alpha$ up to the second order in $\epsilon$-expansion, where $\epsilon=\sigma-d$, $\sigma$ is the L\'evy exponent and $d$ is the spatial dimension. For $d=\sigma$, we find the exponent of the logarithmic decay exactly. Theoretical values of the exponents are confirmed by numerical simulations.

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