Competition and evolution in restricted space

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/07/P07016zbMATH Open1456.92115arXiv1406.3316MaRDI QIDQ3302003FDOQ3302003

Authors: Fabricio L. Forgerini, Nuno Crokidakis 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

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

Abstract: We study the competition and the evolution of nodes embedded in Euclidean restricted spaces. The population evolves by a branching process in which new nodes are generated when up to two new nodes are attached to the previous ones at each time unit. The competition in the population is introduced by considering the effect of overcrowding of nodes in the embedding space. The branching process is suppressed if the newborn node is closer than a distance $xi$ of the previous nodes. This rule may be relevant to describe a competition for resources, limiting the density of individuals and therefore the total population. This results in an exponential growth in the initial period, and, after some crossover time, approaching some limiting value. Our results show that the competition among the nodes associated with geometric restrictions can even, for certain conditions, lead the entire population to extinction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3316

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

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