An approach to anomalous diffusion in the n-dimensional space generated by a self-similar Laplacian

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Authors: T. Michelitsch, Gérard A. Maugin, Andrzej F. Nowakowski, Franck C. G. A. Nicolleau, Mujibur Rahman 

Publication date: 30 July 2012

Abstract: We analyze a quasi-continuous linear chain with self-similar distribution of harmonic interparticle springs as recently introduced for one dimension (Michelitsch et al., Phys. Rev. E 80, 011135 (2009)). We define a continuum limit for one dimension and generalize it to $n=1,2,3,\mathrm{..}$ dimensions of the physical space. Application of Hamilton's (variational) principle defines then a self-similar and as consequence non-local Laplacian operator for the $n$-dimensional space where we proof its ellipticity and its accordance (up to a strictly positive prefactor) with the fractional Laplacian $-(-Delta{)}^{f}racalpha2$. By employing this Laplacian we establish a Fokker Planck diffusion equation: We show that this Laplacian generates spatially isotropic L'evi stable distributions which correspond to L'evi flights in $n$-dimensions. In the limit of large scaled times $simt/r^{alpha}>>1$ the obtained distributions exhibit an algebraic decay $sim{t}^{-fracnalpha}ightarrow0$ independent from the initial distribution and spacepoint. This universal scaling depends only on the ratio $n/alpha$ of the dimension $n$ of the physical space and the L'evi parameter $alpha$.

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