Killing (absorption) versus survival in random motion

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVE.96.032104arXiv1705.08402WikidataQ49962152 ScholiaQ49962152MaRDI QIDQ6287038FDOQ6287038

Publication date: 23 May 2017

Abstract: We address diffusion processes in a bounded domain, while focusing on somewhat unexplored affinities between the presence of absorbing and/or inaccessible boundaries. For the Brownian motion (L'{e}vy-stable cases are briefly mentioned) model-independent features are established, of the dynamical law that underlies the short time behavior of these random paths, whose overall life-time is predefined to be long. As a by-product, the limiting regime of a permanent trapping in a domain is obtained. We demonstrate that the adopted conditioning method, involving the so-called Bernstein transition function, works properly also in an unbounded domain, for stochastic processes with killing (Feynman-Kac kernels play the role of transition densities), provided the spectrum of the related semigroup operator is discrete. The method is shown to be useful in the case, when the spectrum of the generator goes down to zero and no isolated minimal (ground state) eigenvalue is in existence, like e.g. in the problem of the long-term survival on a half-line with a sink at origin.

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