{"id":884,"date":"2015-05-18T11:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/?p=884"},"modified":"2016-01-08T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T10:08:41","slug":"agliari-e-sartori-f-cattivelli-l-and-cassi-d-2015-hitting-and-trapping-times-on-branched-structures-physical-review-e-915-p-052132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/agliari-e-sartori-f-cattivelli-l-and-cassi-d-2015-hitting-and-trapping-times-on-branched-structures-physical-review-e-915-p-052132\/","title":{"rendered":"Agliari, E., Sartori, F., Cattivelli, L. and Cassi, D., 2015. Hitting and trapping times on branched structures. Physical Review E, 91(5), p.052132."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this work we consider a simple random walk embedded in a generic branched structure and we find a close-form formula to calculate the hitting time <span class=\"aps-inline-formula\"><span id=\"MathJax-Element-1-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-1\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-2\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-3\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-4\" class=\"mi\">H<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-5\" class=\"mfenced\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-6\" class=\"mo\">(<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-7\" class=\"mi\">i<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-8\" class=\"mo\">,<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-9\" class=\"mi\">f<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-10\" class=\"mo\">)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> between two arbitrary nodes <span class=\"aps-inline-formula\"><span id=\"MathJax-Element-2-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-11\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-12\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-13\" class=\"mi\">i<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> and <span class=\"aps-inline-formula\"><span id=\"MathJax-Element-3-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-14\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-15\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-16\" class=\"mi\">j<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>. We then use this formula to obtain the set of hitting times <span class=\"aps-inline-formula\"><span id=\"MathJax-Element-4-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-17\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-18\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-19\" class=\"mfenced\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-20\" class=\"mo\">{<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-21\" class=\"mi\">H<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-22\" class=\"mfenced\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-23\" class=\"mo\">(<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-24\" class=\"mi\">i<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-25\" class=\"mo\">,<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-26\" class=\"mi\">f<\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-27\" class=\"mo\">)<\/span><\/span><span id=\"MathJax-Span-28\" class=\"mo\">}<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> for combs and their expectation values, namely, the mean first-passage time, where the average is performed over the initial node while the final node <span class=\"aps-inline-formula\"><span id=\"MathJax-Element-5-Frame\" class=\"MathJax\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-29\" class=\"math\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-30\" class=\"mrow\"><span id=\"MathJax-Span-31\" class=\"mi\">f<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> is given, and the global mean first-passage time, where the average is performed over both the initial and the final node. Finally, we discuss applications in the context of reaction-diffusion problems.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevE.91.052132<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this work we consider a simple random walk embedded in a generic branched structure and we find a close-form formula to calculate the hitting time H(i,f) between two arbitrary nodes i and j. We then use this formula to obtain the set of hitting times {H(i,f)} for combs and their expectation values, namely, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathfinance.sns.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}