Brownian coagulation and a version of Smoluchowski's equation on the circle (Q968779)

The author introduces a diffusion model where coagulation occurs on collision as a result of a random event: \(N\) mass-charged particles perform independent one-dimensional diffusions, and whenever two particles are at the same location they may coagulate at a positive rate in their intersection local time. The new particle is assigned the sum of the masses of the incoming particles, and the process continues. It is derived a spatially inhomogeneous version of the mass flow equation as the particle number tends to infinity and it is proved uniqueness for this equation in a broad class of solutions.