Abad, E.; Nicolis, G.; Bentz, Jonathan L.; Kozak, John J. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 326 (2003) 1, pp. 69-87
An analytical method based on the classical ruin problem is developed to compute the mean reaction time between two walkers undergoing a generalized random walk on a 1d lattice. At each time step, either both walkers diffuse simultaneously with probability p (synchronous event) or one of them...