Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Survival probability of stochastic processes beyond persistence exponents

  • N. Levernier,
  • M. Dolgushev,
  • O. Bénichou,
  • R. Voituriez,
  • T. Guérin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10841-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The survival probability of a random walker is the probability that a particular target has not been reached by time t. Here the authors produce a formula for the prefactor involved in the expression of the survival probability which is shown to hold for both Markovian and non-Markovian processes.