The origin of power-law distributions in deterministic walks: the influence of landscape geometry

Details The origin of power-law distributions in deterministic walks: the influence of landscape geometry The origin of power-law distributions in deterministic walks: the influence of landscape geometry

2007-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/0705.4438v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

7 pages, 11 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.75.061114

We investigate the properties of a deterministic walk, whose locomotion rule is always to travel to the nearest site. Initially the sites are randomly distributed in a closed rectangular ($A/L \times L)$ landscape and, once reached, they become unavailable for future visits. As expected, the walker step lengths present characteristic scales in one ($L \to 0$) and two ($A/L \sim L$) dimensions. However, we find scale invariance for an intermediate geometry, when the landscape is a thin strip-like region. This result is induced geometrically by a dynamical trapping mechanism, leading to a power law distribution for the step lengths. The relevance of our findings in broader contexts -- of both deterministic and random walks -- is also briefly discussed.

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