A Guide to First-Passage Processes: A Second Look by Sidney Redner
This second edition provides a comprehensive and unified presentation of the theory and applications of first-passage processes. It begins by developing the phenomenology from basic principles and illustrating it via the first-passage properties of the interval, the semi-infinite line, spherical geometries, unbounded domains, and bounded two-dimensional domains. Dedicated sections describe first-passage processes in many types of systems, including complete and nearly complete graphs, the Erdős-Renyi graph, the Cayley tree, and hierarchical networks. The new edition has been substantially revised and expanded to include new sections on the martingale method, heterogeneity, and other important concepts. A wide range of new applications are discussed, such as queueing, birth-death reactions, the Polya urn, resetting, chemoreception, search processes, and the 'hot hand' paradox. The book's accessible style makes it a valuable resource for researchers and students in statistical and mathematical physics, chemistry, engineering, and all other fields in which first-passage problems arise.
Sidney Redner is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He has worked extensively in non-equilibrium statistical physics and stochastics and has published more than 300 research articles in these areas. First-passage processes have played a large role in many of these publications. He is Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and received the 2021 Leo P. Kadanoff Prize from the APS. He co-authored the book A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108838825 |
| Title | A Guide to First-Passage Processes: A Second Look |
| Author | Sidney Redner |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Number of pages | 391 |
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