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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
; 63(6 Pt 2): 066125, 2001 Jun.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11415191
RESUMO
We study the recently introduced random walk problems of partial covering time (PCT) and random covering time (RCT). We generalize the concept of first-passage time to a given set of m sites by considering the probability of visiting all m sites for the first time on the tth step. For the one-dimensional case we derive an explicit result for the mean time needed to visit m sites for the first time. Using this result we are able to solve the PCT and RCT problems exactly in one dimension.