Lévy flights and related topics in physics : proceedings of the international workshop held at Nice, France, 27-30 June 1994 / M.F. Shlesinger, G.M. Zaslavsky, U. Frisch

Contents: Benoit B. Mandelbrot, The Paul Lévy I knew (ix–xii); A. Tsinober, Variability of anomalous transport exponents versus different physical situations in geophysical and laboratory turbulence (3–33); Evgeny A. Novikov, Conditionally-averaged dynamics of turbulence, new scaling and stochastic modelling (35–50); Eric R. Weeks, T. H. Solomon, Jeffrey S. Urbach and Harry L. Swinney, Observation of anomalous diffusion and Lévy flights (51–71); Vered Rom-Kedar, Yona Dvorkin and Nathan Paldor, Chaotic Lagrangian motion on a rotating sphere (72–87); F. Hayot and L. Wagner [Lukas Wagner], Lévy walks and lattice gas hydrodynamics (88–95); Jean-Pierre Kahane, Definition of stable laws, infinitely divisible laws, and Lévy processes (99–109); Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Introduction to fractal sums of pulses (110–123); Albert Fannjiang, Time scales in noisy conservative systems (124–139); Michael Blank, Geometric constructions in multifractality formalism (140–149); T. Geisel, Lévy walks in chaotic systems: useful formulas and recent applications (153–173); Sadruddin Benkadda, Brigitte R. Ragot and Yves Elskens, Transport and large scale stochasticity for a nonperiodic generalisation of the standard map (174–181); Edward Ott, John C. Sommerer, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. and Shankar Venkataramani, Blowout bifurcations: symmetry breaking of spatially symmetric chaotic states (182–195); J. Klafter, G. Zumofen and M. F. Shlesinger, Lévy description of anomalous diffusion in dynamical systems (196–215); G. M. Zaslavsky [G. M. Zaslavskiĭ], From Lévy flights to the fractional kinetic equation for dynamical chaos (216–236); J. P. Bouchaud, More Lévy distributions in physics (239–250); Hans C. Fogedby, Aspects of Lévy flights in a quenched random force field (251–261); Uriel Frisch and Hélène Frisch, Universality of escape from a half-space for symmetrical random walks (262–268); Constantino Tsallis, André M. C. de Souza and Roger Maynard, Derivation of Lévy-type anomalous superdiffusion from generalized statistical mechanics (269–289); Elena Floriani, György Trefán, Paolo Grigolini and Bruce J. West, A dynamical model leading to the breakdown of the Green-Kubo predictions (290–299); Rosario N. Mantegna and H. Eugene Stanley, Ultra-slow convergence to a Gaussian: the truncated Lévy flight (300–312); C.-K. Peng, J. M. Hausdorff, J. E. Mietus, S. Havlin, H. E. Stanley and A. L. Goldberger, Fractals in physiological control: from heart beat to gait (315–330); H. E. Stanley, S. V. Buldyrev, A. L. Goldberger, S. Havlin, R. N. Mantegna, C.-K. Peng, M. Simons and M. H. R. Stanley, Long-range correlations and generalized Lévy walks in DNA sequences (331–347).