Lévy flight

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:logic
random process
gptkbp:characterizedBy step lengths drawn from heavy-tailed probability distributions
gptkbp:contrastsWith Brownian motion
gptkbp:describedBy power-law distribution
gptkbp:field gptkb:mathematics
biology
finance
physics
gptkbp:firstDescribed 1930s
gptkbp:hasProperty scale invariance
infinite variance
non-Gaussian statistics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Lévy flight
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Paul_Lévy
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Lévy_distribution
random walk
gptkbp:usedIn search algorithms
financial modeling
animal foraging theory
turbulent flow modeling
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:stochastic_process
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4