Lévy flight
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971).
Noun[edit]
Lévy flight (plural Lévy flights)
- (mathematics) A type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a “heavy-tailed” distribution i.e. there are a significant number of large increments.
- Synonym: Lévy walk