Multi-point correlations for two dimensional coalescing random walks

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Authors Jamie Lukins, Roger Tribe, Oleg Zaboronski

Publication date 19 July 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: This paper considers an infinite system of instantaneously coalescing rate one simple random walks on $mathbb{Z}^2$, started from the initial condition with all sites in $mathbb{Z}^2$ occupied. We show that the correlation functions of the model decay, for any $Ngeq2$, as [ ho_N (x_1,ldots,x_N;t) = frac{c_0(x_1,ldots,x_N)}{pi^N} (log t)^{N-{N choose 2}} t^{-N} left(1 + Oleft( frac{1}{log^{frac12-delta}!t} ight) ight) ] as $toinfty$. This generalises the results for $N=1$ due to Bramson and Griffeath and confirms a prediction in the physics literature for $N>1$. An analogous statement holds for instantaneously annihilating random walks. The key tools are the known asymptotic $h{o}_1(t)simlogt/pit$ due to Bramson and Griffeath, and the non-collision probability $p_{NC}(t)$, that no pair of a finite collection of $N$ two dimensional simple random walks meets by time $t$, whose asymptotic $p_{NC}(t)sim{c}_0(logt{)}^{-Nchoose2}$ was found by Cox, Merle and Perkins. This paper re-derives the asymptotics both for $h{o}_1(t)$ and $p_{NC}(t)$ by proving that these quantities satisfy {it effective rate equations}, that is approximate differential equations at large times. This approach can be regarded as a generalisation of the Smoluchowski theory of renormalised rate equations to multi-point statistics.

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