Kinetics of a diffusive capture process: lamb besieged by a pride of lions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/29/17/011MaRDI QIDQ4393581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner

Publication date 12 November 1998

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9603176

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion processes (60J60) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: The survival probability, S_N(t), of a diffusing prey (``lamb) in the proximity of N diffusing predators (a ``pride of lions) in one dimension is investigated. When the lions are all to one side of the lamb, the survival probability decays as a non-universal power law, S_N(t) is proportional to t^{-beta_N}, with the decay exponent beta_N proportional to ln N. The crossover behavior as a function of the relative diffusivities of the lions and the lamb is also discussed. When N--->oo, the lamb survival probability exhibits a log-normal decay, exp(-ln^2 t).

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