On heterogeneous diffusion processes and the formation of spatial–temporal nonlocality

Abstract

Heterogeneous diffusion processes defined as a solution to the overdamped Langevin equation with multiplicative noise, the amplitude of which has a power-law space-dependent form, are studied. Particular emphasis is on discrete analogs of these processes, for which, in particular, an asymptotic estimate of their variance behavior in time is obtained. In addition, a class of processes formed by deformation of the discrete analog of the fractional Brownian motion using the Cantor ladder and its inverse transformation is considered. It is found that such a class turns out to be close in structure to discrete analogs of heterogeneous processes. This class of processes allows us to illustrate geometrically the emergence of sub- and superdiffusion transport regimes. On the basis of discrete analogs of heterogeneous processes and memory flow phenomenology, we construct a class of random processes that allows us to model nonlocality in time and space taking into account spatial heterogeneity.