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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E Année : 2022

Joint statistics of space and time exploration of 1d random walks

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The statistics of first-passage times of random walks to target sites has proved to play a key role in determining the kinetics of space exploration in various contexts. In parallel, the number of distinct sites visited by a random walker and related observables has been introduced to characterize the geometry of space exploration. Here, we address the question of the joint distribution of the first-passage time to a target and the number of distinct sites visited when the target is reached, which fully quantifies the coupling between the kinetics and geometry of search trajectories. Focusing on one-dimensional systems, we present a general method and derive explicit expressions of this joint distribution for several representative examples of Markovian search processes. In addition, we obtain a general scaling form, which holds also for non-Markovian processes and captures the general dependence of the joint distribution on its space and time variables. We argue that the joint distribution has important applications to various problems, such as a conditional form of the Rosenstock trapping model, and the persistence properties of self-interacting random walks
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hal-03842916 , version 1 (07-11-2022)

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J. Klinger, A. Barbier-Chebbah, R. Voituriez, O. Bénichou. Joint statistics of space and time exploration of 1d random walks. Physical Review E , 2022, 105 (3), pp.034116. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.105.034116⟩. ⟨hal-03842916⟩
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