Intermittent Kac’s flights and the generalized telegrapher’s equation

Abstract

A generalized one-dimensional telegrapher equation associated with an intermittent change of sign in the velocity of a Kac’s flight has been proposed. To solve this random differential equation, we used the enlarged master equation approach to obtain the exact differential equation for the evolution of a normalized positive distribution. This distribution is associated with a generalized finite-velocity diffusionlike process. We studied the robustness of the ballistic regime, the cutoff of its domain, and the time-dependent Gaussian convergence. The second moment for the evolution of the profile has been studied as a function of non-Poisson statistics (possibly intermittent) for the time intervals i j in the Kac’s flight. Numerical results for the evolution of sharp and wide initial profiles have also been presented. In addition, for comparison with a non-Gaussian process at all times, we have revisited the non-Markov Poisson’s flight with exponential pulses. A theory for generalized random flights with intermittent stochastic velocity and in the presence of a force is also presented, and the stationary distribution for two classes of potential has been obtained.