https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2016-70578-3
Colloquium
The continuous time random walk, still trendy: fifty-year history, state of art and outlook*
1 Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteur Str. 5, 02093 Warsaw, Poland
2 Departament de Fisica Matèria Condensada and Institute of Complex Systems, Universitat de Barcelona, Marti i Franques 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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e-mail: ryszard.kutner@fuw.edu.pl
Received: 29 September 2016
Received in final form: 13 October 2016
Published online: 22 March 2017
In this article we demonstrate the very inspiring role of the continuous-time random walk (CTRW) formalism, the numerous modifications permitted by its flexibility, its various applications, and the promising perspectives in the various fields of knowledge. A short review of significant achievements and possibilities is given. However, this review is still far from completeness. We focused on a pivotal role of CTRWs mainly in anomalous stochastic processes discovered in physics and beyond. This article plays the role of an extended announcement of the Eur. Phys. J. B Special Issue [http://epjb.epj.org/open-calls-for-papers/123-epj-b/1090-ctrw-50-years-on] containing articles which show incredible possibilities of the CTRWs.
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