A planar random motion with an infinite number of directions controlled by the damped wave equation

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1168-1182

  Kolesnik, Alexander D ^a,c   Orsingher, Enzo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Moldova)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Moldova)

Author keywords

Bessel function; Damped wave equation; Finite speed; Membrane vibration; Planar Brownian motion; Random motion; Sonine formula; Telegraph process; Uniformly distributed direction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645343315     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1134587824     Document Type: Article

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