Honors Oral Exam

Relativistic Brownian Motion.

Yue Wang (University of Rochester)

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
https://rochester.zoom.us/j/98628927517

The displacements of a particle from classical Brownian motion form a Gaussian distribution. However, the distribution of variables drawn from a distribution with infinite variance as opposed to a finite variance in classical Brownian motion is not Gaussian. We show that the sum of a large number of lognormal variables tends to a Levy subordinator distribution when \(0 < \alpha < 1\). This distribution is surprisingly common in real-life stochastic systems such as the stock market and relativistic Brownian motion.

Event contact: jonathan dot pakianathan at rochester dot edu