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Lévy Flights and Related Topics in Physics

Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at Nice, France, 27–30 June 1994

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 450)

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Observation of anomalous diffusion and Lévy flights

    • Eric R. Weeks, T. H. Solomon, Jeffrey S. Urbach, Harry L. Swinney
    Pages 51-71
  3. Chaotic lagrangian motion on a rotating sphere

    • Vered Rom-Kedar, Yona Dvorkin, Nathan Paldor
    Pages 72-87
  4. Lévy walks and lattice gas hydrodynamics

    • F. Hayot, L. Wagner
    Pages 88-95
  5. Introduction to fractal sums of pulses

    • Benoit B. Mandelbrot
    Pages 110-123
  6. Time scales in noisy conservative systems

    • Albert Fannjiang
    Pages 124-139
  7. Transport and large scale stochasticity for a nonperiodic generalisation of the standard map

    • Sadruddin Benkadda, Brigitte R. Ragot, Yves Elskens
    Pages 174-181
  8. Blowout bifurcations: Symmetry breaking of spatially symmetric chaotic states

    • Edward Ott, John C. Sommerer, Thomas M. Antonsen Jr., Shankar Venkataramani
    Pages 182-195
  9. Lévy description of anomalous diffusion in dynamical systems

    • J. Klafter, G. Zumofen, M. F. Shlesinger
    Pages 196-215
  10. More Lévy distributions in physics

    • J. P. Bouchaud
    Pages 237-250
  11. Universality of escape from a half-space for symmetrical random walks

    • Uriel Frisch, Hélène Frisch
    Pages 262-268
  12. Derivation of Lévy-type anomalous superdiffusion from generalized statistical mechanics

    • Constantino Tsallis, André M. C. de Souza, Roger Maynard
    Pages 269-289
  13. A dynamical model leading to the breakdown of the Green-Kubo predictions

    • Elena Floriani, György Trefán, Paolo Grigolini, Bruce J. West
    Pages 290-299

About this book

P. Lévy's work on random walks with infinite moments, developed more than half a century ago, has now been fully appreciated as a foundation of probabilistic aspects of fractals and chaos as well as scale-invariant processes. This is the first book for physicists devoted to Lévy processes. It includes thorough review articles on applications in fluid and gas dynamics, in dynamical systems including anomalous diffusion and in statistical mechanics. Various articles approach mathematical problems and finally the volume addresses problems in theoretical biology. The book is introduced by a personal recollection of P. Lévy written by B. Mandelbrot.

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