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The first-crossing area of a diffusion process with jumps over a constant barrier
For a given barrier and a one-dimensional jump-diffusion process
starting from we study the probability distribution of the integral
determined by till its
first-crossing time over In particular, we show that the
Laplace transform and the moments of are solutions to certain partial
differential-difference equations with outer conditions. The distribution of
the minimum of in is also studied. Thus, we extend the
results of a previous paper by the author, concerning the area swept out by
till its first-passage below zero. Some explicit examples are reported,
regarding diffusions with and without jumps
Energy Barriers and Activated Dynamics in a Supercooled Lennard-Jones Liquid
We study the relation of the potential energy landscape (PEL) topography to
relaxation dynamics of a small model glass former of Lennard-Jones type. The
mechanism under investigation is the hopping betweem superstructures of PEL
mimima, called metabasins (MB). From the mean durations \tauphi of visits to
MBs, we derive effective depths of these objects by the relation
\Eapp=\d\ln\tauphi/\d\beta, where \beta=1/\kB T. Since the apparent
activation energies \Eapp are of purely dynamical origin, we look for a
quantitative relation to PEL structure. A consequence of the rugged nature of
MBs is that escapes from MBs are not single hops between PEL minima, but
complicated multi-minima sequences. We introduce the concept of return
probabilities to the bottom of MBs in order to judge whether the attraction
range of a MB was left. We then compute the energy barriers that were
surmounted. These turn out to be in good agreement with the effective depths
\Eapp, calculated from dynamics. Barriers are identified with the help of a
new method, which accurately performs a descent along the ridge between two
minima. A comparison to another method is given. We analyze the population of
transition regions between minima, called basin borders. No indication for the
mechanism of diffusion to change around the mode-coupling transition can be
found. We discuss the question whether the one-dimensional reaction paths
connecting two minima are relevant for the calculation of reaction rates at the
temperatures under study.Comment: 17 pages, 16 figure
Multilevel Monte Carlo methods for applications in finance
Since Giles introduced the multilevel Monte Carlo path simulation method
[18], there has been rapid development of the technique for a variety of
applications in computational finance. This paper surveys the progress so far,
highlights the key features in achieving a high rate of multilevel variance
convergence, and suggests directions for future research.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1202.6283; and with
arXiv:1106.4730 by other author
Beyond the Fokker-Planck equation: Pathwise control of noisy bistable systems
We introduce a new method, allowing to describe slowly time-dependent
Langevin equations through the behaviour of individual paths. This approach
yields considerably more information than the computation of the probability
density. The main idea is to show that for sufficiently small noise intensity
and slow time dependence, the vast majority of paths remain in small space-time
sets, typically in the neighbourhood of potential wells. The size of these sets
often has a power-law dependence on the small parameters, with universal
exponents. The overall probability of exceptional paths is exponentially small,
with an exponent also showing power-law behaviour. The results cover time spans
up to the maximal Kramers time of the system. We apply our method to three
phenomena characteristic for bistable systems: stochastic resonance, dynamical
hysteresis and bifurcation delay, where it yields precise bounds on transition
probabilities, and the distribution of hysteresis areas and first-exit times.
We also discuss the effect of coloured noise.Comment: 37 pages, 11 figure
Driven particle in a random landscape: disorder correlator, avalanche distribution and extreme value statistics of records
We review how the renormalized force correlator Delta(u), the function
computed in the functional RG field theory, can be measured directly in
numerics and experiments on the dynamics of elastic manifolds in presence of
pinning disorder. We show how this function can be computed analytically for a
particle dragged through a 1-dimensional random-force landscape. The limit of
small velocity allows to access the critical behavior at the depinning
transition. For uncorrelated forces one finds three universality classes,
corresponding to the three extreme value statistics, Gumbel, Weibull, and
Frechet. For each class we obtain analytically the universal function Delta(u),
the corrections to the critical force, and the joint probability distribution
of avalanche sizes s and waiting times w. We find P(s)=P(w) for all three
cases. All results are checked numerically. For a Brownian force landscape,
known as the ABBM model, avalanche distributions and Delta(u) can be computed
for any velocity. For 2-dimensional disorder, we perform large-scale numerical
simulations to calculate the renormalized force correlator tensor
Delta_{ij}(u), and to extract the anisotropic scaling exponents zeta_x >
zeta_y. We also show how the Middleton theorem is violated. Our results are
relevant for the record statistics of random sequences with linear trends, as
encountered e.g. in some models of global warming. We give the joint
distribution of the time s between two successive records and their difference
in value w.Comment: 41 pages, 35 figure
An explicit Skorokhod embedding for functionals of Markovian excursions
We develop an explicit non-randomized solution to the Skorokhod embedding
problem in an abstract setup of signed functionals of Markovian excursions. Our
setting allows to solve the Skorokhod embedding problem, in particular, for
diffusions and their (signed, scaled) age processes, for Azema's martingale,
for spectrally one-sided Levy processes and their reflected versions, for
Bessel processes of dimension smaller than 2, and for their age processes, as
well as for the age process of excursions of Cox-Ingersoll-Ross processes. This
work is a continuation and an important generalization of Obloj and Yor (SPA
110) [35]. Our methodology, following [35], is based on excursion theory and
the solution to the Skorokhod embedding problem is described in terms of the
Ito measure of the functional. We also derive an embedding for positive
functionals and we correct a mistake in the formula in [35] for measures with
atoms.Comment: 50 page
Contributions of plasma physics to chaos and nonlinear dynamics
This topical review focusses on the contributions of plasma physics to chaos
and nonlinear dynamics bringing new methods which are or can be used in other
scientific domains. It starts with the development of the theory of Hamiltonian
chaos, and then deals with order or quasi order, for instance adiabatic and
soliton theories. It ends with a shorter account of dissipative and high
dimensional Hamiltonian dynamics, and of quantum chaos. Most of these
contributions are a spin-off of the research on thermonuclear fusion by
magnetic confinement, which started in the fifties. Their presentation is both
exhaustive and compact. [15 April 2016
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