A Counterexample to the Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis in the Narrow Capture Framework
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| author | Tzou, J. C. Tzou, Leo |
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| contents | The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis asserts that biological organisms have evolved to employ (truncated) Lévy flight searches due to such strategies being more efficient than those based on Brownian motion. However, we provide here a concrete two-dimensional counterexample in which Brownian search is more efficient. In fact, we show that the efficiency of Lévy searches worsens the farther the Lévy flight tail index deviates from the Brownian limit. Our counterexample is based on the framework of the classic narrow capture problem in which a random search is performed for a small target within a confined search domain. Our results are obtained via three avenues: Monte Carlo simulations of the discrete search processes, finite difference solutions and a matched asymptotic analysis of the elliptic (pseudo)-differential equations of the corresponding continuum limits. |
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| spellingShingle | A Counterexample to the Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis in the Narrow Capture Framework Tzou, J. C. Tzou, Leo Statistical Mechanics Numerical Analysis 65C05, 82M31, 65R20 The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis asserts that biological organisms have evolved to employ (truncated) Lévy flight searches due to such strategies being more efficient than those based on Brownian motion. However, we provide here a concrete two-dimensional counterexample in which Brownian search is more efficient. In fact, we show that the efficiency of Lévy searches worsens the farther the Lévy flight tail index deviates from the Brownian limit. Our counterexample is based on the framework of the classic narrow capture problem in which a random search is performed for a small target within a confined search domain. Our results are obtained via three avenues: Monte Carlo simulations of the discrete search processes, finite difference solutions and a matched asymptotic analysis of the elliptic (pseudo)-differential equations of the corresponding continuum limits. |
| title | A Counterexample to the Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis in the Narrow Capture Framework |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Numerical Analysis 65C05, 82M31, 65R20 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13976 |