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Beyond the arcsine law: Aging statistics of the occupation time in jump processes
Arthur Plaud1, Olivier Bénichou1
1Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée (LPTMC), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.
Abstract:
Occupation times quantify how long a stochastic process remains in a region, and their single-time statistics are famously given by the arcsine law for Brownian and Lévy processes. By contrast, two-time occupation statistics-which directly probe temporal correlations and aging-have resisted exact characterization beyond renewal processes. In this paper we derive exact results for generic one-dimensional jump processes, a central framework for intermittent and discretely sampled dynamics. Using generalized Wiener-Hopf methods, we obtain the joint distribution of occupation time and position, the aged occupation-time law, and the autocorrelation function. In the continuous-time scaling limit, universal features emerge that depend only on the tail of the jump distribution, providing a starting point for exploring aging transport in complex environments.
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