Extreme statistics of anomalous subdiffusion following a fractional Fokker-Planck equation: Subdiffusion is faster than normal diffusion
arXiv:2004.14994 · doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aba39c
Abstract
Anomalous subdiffusion characterizes transport in diverse physical systems and is especially prevalent inside biological cells. In cell biology, the prevailing model for chemical activation rates has recently changed from the first passage time (FPT) of a single searcher to the FPT of the fastest searcher out of many searchers to reach a target, which is called an extreme statistic or extreme FPT. In this paper, we investigate extreme statistics of searchers which move by anomalous subdiffusion. We model subdiffusion by a fractional Fokker-Planck equation involving the Riemann-Liouville fractional derivative. We prove an explicit and very general formula for every moment of subdiffusive extreme FPTs and approximate their full probability distribution. While the mean FPT of a single subdiffusive searcher is infinite, the fastest subdiffusive searcher out of many subdiffusive searchers typically has a finite mean FPT. In fact, we prove the counterintuitive result that extreme FPTs of subdiffusion are faster than extreme FPTs of normal diffusion. Mathematically, we employ a stochastic representation involving a random time change of a standard Ito drift-diffusion according to the trajectory of the first crossing time inverse of a Levy subordinator. A key step in our analysis is generalizing Varadhan's formula from large deviation theory to the case of subdiffusion, which yields the short-time distribution of subdiffusion in terms of a certain geodesic distance.
arXiv comment39 pages, 2 figures
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