The origin of power-law distributions in deterministic walks: the influence of landscape geometry
| Autor: | Santos, M. C., Boyer, D., Miramontes, O., Viswanathan, G. M., Raposo, E. P., Mateos, J. L., da Luz, M. G. E. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.061114 |
| Popis: | We investigate the properties of a deterministic walk, whose locomotion rule is always to travel to the nearest site. Initially the sites are randomly distributed in a closed rectangular ($A/L \times L)$ landscape and, once reached, they become unavailable for future visits. As expected, the walker step lengths present characteristic scales in one ($L \to 0$) and two ($A/L \sim L$) dimensions. However, we find scale invariance for an intermediate geometry, when the landscape is a thin strip-like region. This result is induced geometrically by a dynamical trapping mechanism, leading to a power law distribution for the step lengths. The relevance of our findings in broader contexts -- of both deterministic and random walks -- is also briefly discussed. Comment: 7 pages, 11 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. E |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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