On the Tail Transition of First Arrival Position Channels: From Cauchy to Exponential Decay

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contents While the zero-drift first arrival position (FAP) channel exhibits a Cauchy-distributed lateral displacement, nonzero drift in practical systems introduces advective transport that regularizes this singular limit. This letter characterizes the drift-induced transition of FAP distribution from heavy-tailed algebraic regime to exponential regularization. By asymptotically examining the exact FAP density, we identify a characteristic propagation distance (CPD) that serves as the fundamental boundary separating diffusion-dominated and drift-dominated regimes. Numerical experiments demonstrate that in low-drift environments, variance-matched Gaussian approximations severely underestimate the true communication potential, whereas the zero-drift Cauchy law provides a robust, physically grounded performance baseline.
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spellingShingle On the Tail Transition of First Arrival Position Channels: From Cauchy to Exponential Decay
Lee, Yen-Chi
Information Theory
Signal Processing
Probability
While the zero-drift first arrival position (FAP) channel exhibits a Cauchy-distributed lateral displacement, nonzero drift in practical systems introduces advective transport that regularizes this singular limit. This letter characterizes the drift-induced transition of FAP distribution from heavy-tailed algebraic regime to exponential regularization. By asymptotically examining the exact FAP density, we identify a characteristic propagation distance (CPD) that serves as the fundamental boundary separating diffusion-dominated and drift-dominated regimes. Numerical experiments demonstrate that in low-drift environments, variance-matched Gaussian approximations severely underestimate the true communication potential, whereas the zero-drift Cauchy law provides a robust, physically grounded performance baseline.
title On the Tail Transition of First Arrival Position Channels: From Cauchy to Exponential Decay
topic Information Theory
Signal Processing
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19074