A random walk with catastrophes

DOI10.1214/19-EJP282MaRDI QIDQ2631854zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Iddo Ben-Ari, Alexander Roitershtein, Rinaldo Schinazi

Publication date 16 May 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04780, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1553565779

zbMATH Keywords

catastrophescouplingcutoffpersistencepopulation modelsspectral gap

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Processes in random environments (60K37) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Abstract: Random population dynamics with catastrophes (events pertaining to possible elimination of a large portion of the population) has a long history in the mathematical literature. In this paper we study an ergodic model for random population dynamics with linear growth and binomial catastrophes: in a catastrophe, each individual survives with some fixed probability, independently of the rest. Through a coupling construction, we obtain sharp two-sided bounds for the rate of convergence to stationarity which are applied to show that the model exhibits a cutoff phenomenon.

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