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Published Online: 29 November 1999
Accepted: July 1999

Above, below and beyond Brownian motion

American Journal of Physics 67, 1253 (1999); https://doi.org/10.1119/1.19112
Michael F. Shlesinger
  • Office of Naval Research, Physical Sciences Division, Arlington, Virginia 22217-5666
    • Joseph Klafter
  • School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel 69978
    • Gert Zumofen
  • Laboratorium fur Physikalische Chemie, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
    • more...
    Abstract
    Brownian motion represents simple diffusion random walk processes. More complex random walk processes also can occur when probability distributions describing the random jump distances and times have infinite moments. We explore the manner in which these distributions can arise and how they underlie various scaling laws that play an important role in both random and deterministic systems.

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