Reflecting random flights

DOI10.1007/S10955-015-1293-YMaRDI QIDQ746848zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro De Gregorio, Enzo Orsingher

Publication date 21 October 2015

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0499

zbMATH Keywords

Bessel functionscircular inversionEuler-Poisson-Darboux equationsfractional-type Poisson distributionsinversion in hyperplanerandom motions at finite velocity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Euler-Poisson-Darboux equations (35Q05)

Abstract: We consider random flights in $mathbb{R}^d$ reflecting on the surface of a sphere $mathbb{S}_R^{d-1},$ with center at the origin and with radius $R,$ where reflection is performed by means of circular inversion. Random flights studied in this paper are motions where the orientation of the deviations are uniformly distributed on the unit-radius sphere $mathbb{S}_1^{d-1}$. We obtain the explicit probability distributions of the position of the moving particle when the number of changes of direction is fixed and equal to $ngeq1$. We show that these distributions involve functions which are solutions of the Euler-Darboux-Poisson equation. The unconditional probability distributions of the reflecting random flights are obtained by suitably randomizing $n$ by means of a fractional-type Poisson process. Random flights reflecting on hyperplanes according to the optical reflection form are considered and the related distributional properties derived.

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