Random parking, Euclidean functionals, and rubber elasticity

DOI10.1007/S00220-013-1725-YMaRDI QIDQ356685zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antoine Gloria, Mathew D. Penrose

Publication date 26 July 2013

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1140

zbMATH Keywords

random parkingrubber elasticitysubadditive ergodic theoremthermodynamic limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Strong limit theorems (60F15) Random measures (60G57) Combinatorial optimization (90C27)

Abstract: We study subadditive functions of the random parking model previously analyzed by the second author. In particular, we consider local functions $S$ of subsets of $mathbb{R}^d$ and of point sets that are (almost) subadditive in their first variable. Denoting by $xi$ the random parking measure in $mathbb{R}^d$, and by $x{i}^R$ the random parking measure in the cube $Q_R=(-R,R{)}^d$, we show, under some natural assumptions on $S$, that there exists a constant $$ such that % ${\displaystyle }$ lim_{R o +infty} frac{S(Q_R,xi)}{|Q_R|},=,lim_{R o +infty}frac{S(Q_R,xi^R)}{|Q_R|},=,�ar{S} ${\displaystyle }$ % almost surely. If $zetamapstoS(Q_R,zeta)$ is the counting measure of $zeta$ in $Q_R$, then we retrieve the result by the second author on the existence of the jamming limit. The present work generalizes this result to a wide class of (almost) subadditive functions. In particular, classical Euclidean optimization problems as well as the discrete model for rubber previously studied by Alicandro, Cicalese, and the first author enter this class of functions. In the case of rubber elasticity, this yields an approximation result for the continuous energy density associated with the discrete model at the thermodynamic limit, as well as a generalization to stochastic networks generated on bounded sets.

Review text

Random parking (also known as random sequential adsorption) refers to a model in which open balls of a given radius arrive sequentially and uniformly at random in a cube, subject to non-overlap until saturation occurs. One first generalizes the model to local subadditive functions, obtaining so a general result on the averaged density of packed balls, which is then applied to classical Euclidean optimization problems on the random parking measure. Finally, one applies this study to a model for rubber previously proposed by one of the authors.

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