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Consider a particle moving on the surface of the unit sphere in R 3 and heading towards a specific destination with a constant average speed, but subject to random deviations.
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Brillinger, D.R. (2012). A Particle Migrating Randomly on a Sphere. In: Guttorp, P., Brillinger, D. (eds) Selected Works of David Brillinger. Selected Works in Probability and Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1344-8_7
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