Gradual diffusive capture: slow death by many mosquito bites

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/11/P11019zbMATH Open1456.92125arXiv1409.2907MaRDI QIDQ3301804FDOQ3301804

S. Redner, O. Bénichou

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the dynamics of a single diffusing particle (a "man") with diffusivity $D_M$ that is attacked by another diffusing particle (a "mosquito") with fixed diffusivity $D_m$. Each time the mosquito meets and bites the man, the diffusivity of the man is reduced by a fixed amount, while the diffusivity of the mosquito is unchanged. The mosquito is also displaced by a small distance $pma$ with respect to the man after each encounter. The man is defined as dead when $D_M$ reaches zero. At the moment when the man dies, his probability distribution of displacements $x$ is given by a Cauchy form, which asymptotically decays as $x^{-2}$, while the distribution of times $t$ when the man dies asymptotically decays as $t^{-3/2}$, which has the same form as the one-dimensional first-passage probability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2907

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes (60J99) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Ecology (92D40)

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