Phase transition for the frog model (Q1858663)

The subject of the paper is the so-called frog model with death, which can be described as follows. Initially there is a random number of particles at each site of a graph \(G\). A site of \(G\) is singled out and called its root. All particles are sleeping at time zero, except for those that might be placed at the root, which are active. At each instant of time, each active particle may die with probability \(1-p\). Once an active particle survives, it jumps on one of its nearest neighbors, chosen with uniform probability, performing a discrete time simple random walk on \(G\). Up to the time it dies, it activates all sleeping particles it hits along its way. From the moment they are activated on, every such particle starts to walk, performing exactly the same dynamics independent of everything else. The goal of the paper is to study the asymptotic dynamics of this particle system model, with regard to the parameter \(p\), the graph where the random walks take place and the distribution of particles. For \(Z^d\) and regular trees the phase transition results and asymptotic values for critical parameters are studied.