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Tail exponent conjecture for NESS under power-law resetting

Prove that for a one-dimensional Brownian particle subject to the position-dependent resetting rate r(x)=r0|x|^λ, the non-equilibrium steady-state density exhibits asymptotic decay of the form exp(−|x|^{λ/2+1}).

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Background

By estimating NESS numerically for several values of λ, the authors observe that the tails fit the form e{−|x|α} with α depending on λ. From these observations, they propose the hypothesis α=λ/2+1 for the tail exponent.

They explicitly state that this hypothesis remains to be proven, framing a clear conjecture about the asymptotic behavior of NESS under power-law resetting that would unify and extend known special cases (λ=0 and λ=2).

References

Following these results, we hypothesize that for a resetting rate r(x)\sim |x|\lambda, the tails of the NESS decay as \sim e{-|x|{\frac{\lambda}{2}+1}. While this hypothesis remains to be proven, it exemplifies the power of our approach, revealing new phenomena and inspiring future work.

Adaptive Resetting for Informed Search Strategies and the Design of Non-equilibrium Steady-states (2409.14419 - Keidar et al., 22 Sep 2024) in Section “Prediction and design of non-equilibrium steady states,” paragraph following Fig. 3b