The two-type continuum Richardson model: nondependence of the survival of both types on the initial configuration

DOI10.1239/AAP/1316792661zbMATH Open1228.60105arXiv0908.1551OpenAlexW1979679016MaRDI QIDQ3172996FDOQ3172996

Thomas Richthammer, Sebastian Carstens

Publication date: 10 October 2011

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the model of Deijfen et al. for competing growth of two infection types in R^d, based on the Richardson model on Z^d. Stochastic ball-shaped infection outbursts transmit the infection type of the center to all points of the ball that are not yet infected. Relevant parameters of the model are the initial infection configuration, the (type-dependent) growth rates and the radius distribution of the infection outbursts. The main question is that of coexistence: Which values of the parameters allow the unbounded growth of both types with positive probability? Deijfen et al. conjectured that the initial configuration basically is irrelevant for this question, and gave a proof for this under strong assumptions on the radius distribution, which e.g. do not include the case of a deterministic radius. Here we give a proof that doesn't rely on these assumptions. One of the tools to be used is a slight generalization of the model with immune regions and delayed initial infection configurations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1551

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zbMATH Keywords

shape theoremcompeting growthRichardson's modelcontinuum growth modelinitial configuration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Percolation (82B43)

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