Brownian excursion the Airy function and formula_22 is the confluent hypergeometric function. Janson and Louchard (2007) show that and They also give higher-order expansions in both cases. Janson (2007) gives moments of formula_19 and many other area functionals. In particular, Brownian excursions also arise in connection with queuing problems, railway traffic, and the heights of random rooted binary trees. Brownian excursion In probability theory a Brownian excursion process is a stochastic process that is closely related to a Wiener process (or Brownian motion). Realisations of Brownian excursion processes are essentially just realizations of a Wiener process selected to satisfy certain conditions. In
Brownian motion consideration the velocity of the Brownian particle, "U", which depends on the collisions that tend to accelerate and decelerate it. The larger "U" is, the greater will be the collisions that will retard it so that the velocity of a Brownian particle can never increase without limit. Could such a process occur, it would be tantamount to a perpetual motion of the second type. And since equipartition of energy applies, the kinetic energy of the Brownian particle, formula_30, will be equal, on the average, to the kinetic energy of the surrounding fluid particle, formula_31. In 1906 Smoluchowski published a one-dimensional