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Random walk of a "drunk company"
A. G. Semenovabc a Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics, Lebedev Physical
Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
b National Research University Higher School of Economics,
Moscow, Russia
c Russian Endowment for Education and Science,
Moscow, Russia
Abstract:
We study the collective behavior of a system of Brownian agents each of which moves orienting itself to the group as a whole. This system is the simplest model of the motion of a "united drunk company." For such a system, we use the functional integration technique to calculate the probability of transition from one point to another and to determine the time dependence of the probability density to find a member of the "drunk company" near a given point. It turns out that the system exhibits an interesting collective behavior at large times and this behavior cannot be described by the simplest mean-field-type approximation. We also obtain an exact solution in the case where one of the agents is "sober" and moves along a given trajectory. The obtained results are used to discuss whether such systems can be described by different theoretical approaches.
Keywords:
Brownian agent, stochastic dynamics, functional integration method.
Received: 25.08.2015
Citation:
A. G. Semenov, “Random walk of a "drunk company"”, TMF, 187:2 (2016), 350–359; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 187:2 (2016), 753–761
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf9033https://doi.org/10.4213/tmf9033 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/tmf/v187/i2/p350
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