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Binary data corruption due to a Brownian agent

T. J. Newman, Wannapong Triampo

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9811237

Abstract

We introduce a model of binary data corruption induced by a Brownian agent (active random walker) on a d-dimensional lattice. A continuum formulation allows the exact calculation of several quantities related to the density of corrupted bits ρ; for example the mean of ρ, and the density-density correlation function. Excellent agreement is found with the results from numerical simulations. We also calculate the probability distribution of ρin d=1, which is found to be log-normal, indicating that the system is governed by extreme fluctuations.

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