Asymptotics of one-dimensional forest fire processes

DOI10.1214/09-AOP524MaRDI QIDQ1958459zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Bressaud, Nicolas Fournier

Publication date 29 September 2010

Published in The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.1099

zbMATH Keywords

cadlag pathsforest fire modelPoisson processesself-organized criticalitystochastic interacting particle systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We consider the so-called one-dimensional forest fire process. At each site of $mathbbZ$, a tree appears at rate $1$. At each site of $mathbbZ$, a fire starts at rate $lambda>0$, immediately destroying the whole corresponding connected component of trees. We show that when $lambda$ is made to tend to $0$ with an appropriate normalization, the forest fire process tends to a uniquely defined process, the dynamics of which we precisely describe. The normalization consists of accelerating time by a factor $log(1/lambda)$ and of compressing space by a factor $lambdalog(1/lambda)$. The limit process is quite simple: it can be built using a graphical construction and can be perfectly simulated. Finally, we derive some asymptotic estimates (when $lambdao0$) for the cluster-size distribution of the forest fire process.

Review text

Two families of independent Poisson processes, one with rate \(1\) another with rate \(\lambda \), are combined to model the so-called one-dimensional forest fire process (FFP). It is known that, from the point of view of self-organized criticality, an interesting behavior appears in the asymptotic regime \(\lambda \rightarrow 0\). The asymptotic behavior of such \(\lambda \)-FFP model as \(\lambda \rightarrow 0\) has been studied heuristically and numerically. However, mathematically rigorous results are scarse. In this paper a limit theorem is derived rigorusly, showing that the \(\lambda \)-FFP converges (under suitable rescaling) to some limit forest fire process. Its dynamics is precisely described. The limiting process is unique, can be built by means of a graphical construction and is amenable to reliable simulations. Asymptotic estimates are derived for the cluster-size distribution of the forest fire process.

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