Predator-prey dynamics on infinite trees: a branching random walk approach

DOI10.1007/S10959-015-0603-2zbMATH Open1349.92125arXiv1312.4933OpenAlexW2150205424WikidataQ115603658 ScholiaQ115603658MaRDI QIDQ325912FDOQ325912

Authors: Igor Kortchemski 

Publication date: 11 October 2016

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We are interested in predator-prey dynamics on infinite trees, which can informally be seen as particular two-type branching processes where individuals may die (or be infected) only after their parent dies (or is infected). We study two types of such dynamics: the chase-escape process, introduced by Kordzakhia with a variant by Bordenave, and the birth-and-assassination process, introduced by Aldous & Krebs. We exhibit a coupling between these processes and branching random walks starting from a random point and killed at the barrier 0. This sheds new light on the chase-escape and birth-and-assassination processes, which allows us to recover by probabilistic means previously known results and also to obtain new results. For instance, we find the asymptotic behavior of tail of the number of infected individuals in both the subcritical and critical regimes for the chase-escape process, and show that the birth-and-assassination process ends almost surely at criticality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4933

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zbMATH Keywords

couplingpredator-prey dynamicsbirth-and-assassination processbranching random walkschase-escape process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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