Exact and Approximate Mean First Passage Times on Trees and other Necklace Structures: a Local Equilibrium Approach
| Autor: | Yanik-Pascal Förster, Luca Gamberi, Evan Tzanis, Pierpaolo Vivo, Alessia Annibale |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Statistics and Probability
Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) General Physics and Astronomy FOS: Physical sciences Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Mathematics - Statistics Theory Mathematical Physics (math-ph) Statistics Theory (math.ST) Quantitative Biology - Quantitative Methods Modeling and Simulation FOS: Biological sciences FOS: Mathematics Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM) |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2110.01946 |
| Popis: | In this work we propose a novel method to calculate mean first-passage times (MFPTs) for random walks on graphs, based on a dimensionality reduction technique for Markov State Models, known as local-equilibrium (LE). We show that for a broad class of graphs, which includes trees, LE coarse-graining preserves the MFPTs between certain nodes, upon making a suitable choice of the coarse-grained states (or clusters). We prove that this relation is exact for graphs that can be coarse-grained into a one-dimensional lattice where each cluster connects to the lattice only through a single node of the original graph. A side result of the proof generalises the well-known essential edge lemma (EEL), which is valid for reversible random walks, to irreversible walkers. Such a generalised EEL leads to explicit formulae for the MFPTs between certain nodes in this class of graphs. For graphs that do not fall in this class, the generalised EEL provides useful approximations if the graph allows a one-dimensional coarse-grained representation and the clusters are sparsely interconnected. We first demonstrate our method for the simple random walk on the $c$-ary tree, then we consider other graph structures and more general random walks, including irreversible random walks. Comment: 42 pag., 16 fig. Accepted in J. Phys. A |
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