Circle-packing connections with random walks and a finite volume method
For a random vector X with a fixed distribution μ we construct a class of distributions ℳ(μ) = μ∘λ: λ ∈ , which is the class of all distributions of random vectors XΘ, where Θ is independent of X and has distribution λ. The problem is to characterize the distributions μ for which ℳ(μ) is closed under convolution. This is equivalent to the characterization of the random vectors X such that for all random variables Θ₁, Θ₂ independent of X, X’ there exists a random variable Θ independent of X such...
In a continuous time random walk (CTRW), a random waiting time precedes each random jump. The CTRW model is useful in physics, to model diffusing particles. Its scaling limit is a time-changed process, whose densities solve an anomalous diffusion equation. This paper develops limit theory and governing equations for cluster CTRW, in which a random number of jumps cluster together into a single jump. The clustering introduces a dependence between the waiting times and jumps that significantly affects...