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After ruling out slow modulation as a possible approach to complexity, we are left with the search for a more satisfactory approach to complexity that accounts for the renewal BQD properties. Is it possible to propose a more exhaustive approach to complexity, which explains both non-Poisson statistics and renewal at the same time We attempt at realizing this ambitious task in Section XVII. In Section XVII.A we show that a non-Ohmic bath can regarded as a source of memory and cooperation. It can be used for a dynamic approach to Fractional Brownian Motion, which, is, however, a theory without critical events. In Section XVIII.B we show, however, that the recursion process is renewal and fits the requests emerging from the statistical analysis of real data afforded by the researchers in the BQD held. In Section XVII.C we explain why this model might afford an exhaustive approach to complexity. 

The best physical model is the simplest one that can explain all the available experimental time series, with the fewest number of assumptions. Alternative models are those that make predictions and which can assist in formulating new experiments that can discriminate between different hypotheses. We start our discussion of models with a simple random walk, which in its simplest form provides a physical picture of diffusion—that is, a dynamic variable with Gaussian statistics in time. Diffusive phenomena are shown to scale linearly in time and generalized random walks including long-term memory also scale, but they do so nonlinearly in time, as in the case of anomalous diffusion. Fractional diffusion operators are used to incorporate memory into the dynamics of a diffusive process and leads to fractional Brownian motion, among other things. The continuum form of these fractional operators is discussed in Section IV. 

Thus, since the fractional-difference dynamics are linear, the system response is Gaussian, the same as the statistics for the white noise process on the right-hand side of Eq. (22). However, whereas the spectrum of fluctuations is flat, since it is white noise, the spectrum of the system response is inverse power law. From these analytic results we conclude that Xj is analogous to fractional Brownian motion. The analogy is complete if we set a = // 1/2 so that the... 

This leads us to one of the standard, but often inappropriate, explanations of anomalous diffusion using fractional Brownian motion with the probability density... 

Recent advances in percolation theory and fractal geometry have demonstrated that Dc is not a constant when diffusion occurs as a result of fractional Brownian motion, i.e., anomalous diffusion (Sahimi, 1993). The time-dependent diffusion coefficient, D(t), for anomalous diffusion in two-dimensional free space is given by (Mandelbrot Van Ness, 1968),... 

The anomalous diffusivity described by Eq. [13] is due entirely to the fractal nature of the diffusing particle s trajectory in free space. In fractal and multifractal porous media, the diffusing particle s trajectory is further constrained by the geometry of the pore space (Cushman, 1991 Giona et al., 1996 Lovejoy et al., 1998). As a result, when fractional Brownian motion occurs in a two-dimensional fractal porous medium, De becomes scale-dependent, as described by the following equation (Orbach, 1986 Crawford et al., 1993),... 

Mandelbrot, B.B., and J. Van Ness. 1968. Fractional Brownian motion, fractional noises and applications. SIAM Rev, 10 422-437. 

Molz, F.J. Liu, H. H. 1997. Fractional Brownian motion (fBm) and fractional Gaussian noise (fGn) in subsurface hydrology. Water Resources Research 33(10) pp. 2213-2286. 

Vol. 1929 Y. Mishura, Stochastic Calculus for Fractional Brownian Motion and Related Processes (2008)... 

One of the important issues is the possibility to reveal the specific mechanisms of subdiflFusion. The nonlinear time dependence of mean square displacements appears in different mathematical models, for example, in continuous-time random walk models, fractional Brownian motion, and diffusion on fractals. Sometimes, subdiffusion is a combination of different mechanisms. The more thorough investigation of subdiffusion mechanisms, subdiffusion-diffiision crossover times, diffusion coefficients, and activation energies is the subject of future works. 

As with the deterministic monsters, it is possible to relax the requirement that the scaling factor r be identical in all directions. In this case, the random set or curve is said to be statistically self-affine . Historically important examples of statistically self-affine sets are the Brownian and fractional Brownian motions. 

The exponent H in Equations (2.9) and (2.10) does not have to be set equal to 1/2, but may instead vary arbitrarily. When 0 < H <, this generalization leads to he fractional Brownian motion (fBm), to which is associated the so-called fractional Gaussian noise (fGn), in the same manner that Gaussian noise produces the ordinary Brownian motion (see Figure 2.10). 

One key advantage of the box-counting dimension Dbc over the similarity dimension Ds is that Due can be used to evaluate the dimension of self-affine sets. In these sets, however. Due is not uniquely defined instead, it assumes two different values a local or small-scale value and a global or large-scale value [e.g. [10 (p. 187), 31 (p. 55), 35 (p. 8)]. In the case of the fractional Brownian motion (Section 2.2.5), the local Due value is equal to the Hausdorff dimension and is given hy2- H, where H is the Hurst exponent, whereas the global value of Dbc = 1 [e.g. 10 (p. 189)]. 

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