Continuous Time Random Walk, Mittag-Leffler Waiting Time and Fractional Diffusion: Mathematical Aspects

Anomalous Transport: Foundations and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 93-127

  Gorenflo, Rudolf ^a   Mainardi, Francesco ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continuous time random walk; Diffusion limit in space; Fractional diffusion; Gnedenko Kovalenko theory of thinning; Manipulations; Mathematical aspects; Mittag Leffler waiting time; Mittag Leffler Waiting Time Density asymptotic universality; Mittag Leffler Waiting Time Density power laws; Rescaling; Respeeding; Time fractional drift process

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549151413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527622979.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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