Lévy flight superdiffusion: An introduction

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2649-2672

  Dubkov, A A ^a   Spagnolo, B ^b   Uchaikin, V V ^c  

^a LOBACHEVSKY STATE UNIVERSITY OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c ULYANOVSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Barrier crossing; Fractional differential equation; L vy flights; L vy motion; L vy process; Stable distributions

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); WHITE NOISE;

ALPHA-STABLE DISTRIBUTION; BARRIER CROSSING; CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS; FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FRACTIONAL FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; FRACTIONAL ORDER DERIVATIVES; NONLINEAR RELAXATION TIME; STABLE DISTRIBUTIONS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 57249084136     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127408021877     Document Type: Review

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