Metastability of a random walk with catastrophes

DOI10.1214/19-ECP275MaRDI QIDQ2279085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rinaldo Schinazi, L. R. Fontes

Publication date 12 December 2019

Published in Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05357, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1573268934

zbMATH Keywords

random walkmetastabilitypopulation modelcatastrophe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17)

Abstract: We consider a random walk with catastrophes which was introduced to model population biology. It is known that this Markov chain gets eventually absorbed at $0$ for all parameter values. Recently, it has been shown that this chain exhibits a metastable behavior in the sense that it can persist for a very long time before getting absorbed. In this paper we study this metastable phase by making the parameters converge to extreme values. We obtain four different limits that we believe shed light on the metastable phase.

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