FRACTAL LIMIT DISTRIBUTIONS IN RANDOM TRANSPORTS

Fractals ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIDEKI TAKAYASU ◽  
TAKUO KAWAKAMI ◽  
Y. -H. TAGUCHI ◽  
TOMOO KATSUYAMA

We analyze a random transport model of a scalar quantity on a discrete space-time. By changing a parameter which is a portion of the quantity transported at a time, we observe a continuous change of steady-state distribution of fluctuations from Gaussian to a power-law when the mean value of the scalar quantity is not zero. In the symmetric case with zero mean, the steady-state converges either to a trivial no fluctuation state or to a Lorentzian fluctuation state with diverging variance independent of the parameter. We discuss a possible origin of the intermittent behaviors of fully-developed fluid turbulence as an application.

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Nobile ◽  
L. M. Ricciardi ◽  
L. Sacerdote

The asymptotic behavior of the first-passage-time p.d.f. through a constant boundary is studied when the boundary approaches the endpoints of the diffusion interval. We show that for a class of diffusion processes possessing a steady-state distribution this p.d.f. is approximately exponential, the mean being the average first-passage time to the boundary. The proof is based on suitable recursive expressions for the moments of the first-passage time.


Genetics ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-337
Author(s):  
Wen-Hsiung Li

ABSTRACT Watterson's (1975) formula for the steady-state distribution of the number of nucleotide differences between two randomly chosen cistrons in a finite population has been extended to transient states. The rate for the mean of this distribution to approach its equilibrium value is 1/2 N and independent of mutation rate, but that for the variance is dependent on mutation rate, where N denotes the effective population size. Numerical computations show that if the heterozygosity (i.e., the probability that two cistrons are different) is low, say of the order of 0.1 or less, the probability that two cistrons differ at two or more nucleotide sites is less than 10 percent of the heterozygosity, whereas this probability may be as high as 50 percent of the heterozygosity if the heterozygosity is 0.5. A simple estimate for the mean number (d) of site differences between cistrons is d = h/(1 - h) where h is the heterozygosity. At equilibrium, the probability that two cistrons differ by more than one site is equal to h  2, the square of heterozygosity.


1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (03) ◽  
pp. 611-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Nobile ◽  
L. M. Ricciardi ◽  
L. Sacerdote

The asymptotic behavior of the first-passage-time p.d.f. through a constant boundary is studied when the boundary approaches the endpoints of the diffusion interval. We show that for a class of diffusion processes possessing a steady-state distribution this p.d.f. is approximately exponential, the mean being the average first-passage time to the boundary. The proof is based on suitable recursive expressions for the moments of the first-passage time.


1985 ◽  
Vol 248 (5) ◽  
pp. C498-C509 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Restrepo ◽  
G. A. Kimmich

Zero-trans kinetics of Na+-sugar cotransport were investigated. Sugar influx was measured at various sodium and sugar concentrations in K+-loaded cells treated with rotenone and valinomycin. Sugar influx follows Michaelis-Menten kinetics as a function of sugar concentration but not as a function of Na+ concentration. Nine models with 1:1 or 2:1 sodium:sugar stoichiometry were considered. The flux equations for these models were solved assuming steady-state distribution of carrier forms and that translocation across the membrane is rate limiting. Classical enzyme kinetic methods and a least-squares fit of flux equations to the experimental data were used to assess the fit of the different models. Four models can be discarded on this basis. Of the remaining models, we discard two on the basis of the trans sodium dependence and the coupling stoichiometry [G. A. Kimmich and J. Randles, Am. J. Physiol. 247 (Cell Physiol. 16): C74-C82, 1984]. The remaining models are terter ordered mechanisms with sodium debinding first at the trans side. If transfer across the membrane is rate limiting, the binding order can be determined to be sodium:sugar:sodium.


2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.-M. Fourneau ◽  
Y. Ait El Majhoub

We consider open networks of queues with Processor-Sharing discipline and signals. The signals deletes all the customers present in the queues and vanish instantaneously. The customers may be usual customers or inert customers. Inert customers do not receive service but the servers still try to share the service capacity between all the customers (inert or usual). Thus a part of the service capacity is wasted. We prove that such a model has a product-form steady-state distribution when the signal arrival rates are positive.


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