Interpolating between Random Walks and Shortest Paths: a Path Functional Approach

General models of network navigation must contain a deterministic or drift component, encouraging the agent to follow routes of least cost, as well as a random or diffusive component, enabling free wandering. This paper proposes a thermodynamic formalism involving two path functionals, namely an ene...

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