<< ️Self-avoiding random walks on graphs can be seen as walkers interacting with their own past history. Here, (AA) consider a complementary class of dynamics, mutual future-avoiding random walks (MFARWs), where stochastically driven walkers are avoiding each other's planned future trajectories. ️Such systems arise naturally in conceptual models of shared mobility. >>
<< ️(AA) show that periodic behavior emerges spontaneously in two different MFARWs, and that periodic and unstructured behavior coexist, providing an example of chimera like behavior of nonoscillatory paths on networks. >>
<< Further, (AA) analytically describe and predict the onset of structure. (They) find that the transition from unstructured to periodic behavior is driven by a mechanism of self-amplifying coupling to the periodic components of the stochastic drivers of the system. In the context of shared mobility applications, these states imply a regime of naturally stable coexistence between flexible and line-based public transport. >>
A. Schmaus, K. Stiller, N. Molkenthin. Emergence and coexistence of periodic and unstructured motion in future-avoiding random walks. Phys. Rev. E 114, 044219. Oct 23, 2026.
arXiv: 2602.03308v1 [nlin.AO]. Feb 3, 2026.
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Keywords: gst, walk, walking, randomness, behavior, chimera, networks, transitions, mutual future-avoiding random walks (MFARWs), stochastically driven walkers, periodic behavior, self-amplifying coupling, discontinuous phase transition.