The sustainability probability for the critical Derrida-Retaux model

DOI10.1007/S00440-021-01091-ZMaRDI QIDQ2073186zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhan Shi, Xinxing Chen, Yueyun Hu

Publication date 27 January 2022

Published in Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05610

zbMATH Keywords

Derrida-Retaux modelopen pathpivotal vertexsustainability probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

Abstract: We are interested in the recursive model $(Y_n,,nge0)$ studied by Collet, Eckmann, Glaser and Martin [9] and by Derrida and Retaux [12]. We prove that at criticality, the probability $$ behaves like $n^{-2+o(1)}$ as $n$ goes to infinity; this gives a weaker confirmation of predictions made in [9], [12] and [6]. Our method relies on studying the number of pivotal vertices and open paths, combined with a delicate coupling argument.

Review text

Consider an integer \(m \geq 2\), and let \(X_{0} \geq 0\) be a random variable taking values in \(\mathbb{Z}_{+}:=\{0,1,2, \ldots\}\) and satisfying \(\mathbf{E}\left(X_{0} m^{X_{0}}\right)<\infty\). Define the following recurrence relation: for all \(n \geq 0\), \[ X_{n+1}=\left(X_{n}^{(1)}+\cdots+X_{n}^{(m)}-1\right)^{+}, \] where \(X_{n}^{(i)}, i \geq 1\), are independent copies of \(X_{n}\) and \( x^{+}:=\max \{x, 0\}\) for all \( x \in \mathbb{R}\). The authors define this model, and their basic question is how the distribution of \(X_{n}\) behaves when \(n\) is sufficiently large. The critical case is \[(m-1) \mathbf{E}\left(X_{0} m^{X_{0}}\right)=\mathbf{E}\left(m^{X_{0}}\right)<\infty.\] The main result of the paper is that at criticality, the probability \(\mathbf{P}\left(X_{n}>0\right)\) behaves like \(n^{-2+o(1)}\) as \(n\) goes to infinity.

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