A capture problem in Brownian motion and eigenvalues of spherical domains

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04505-4MaRDI QIDQ3600643zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jesse Ratzkin, Andrejs Treibergs

Publication date 5 February 2009

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505274

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15)

Abstract: We resolve a question of Bramson and Griffeath by showing that the expected capture time of four independent Brownian predators pursuing one Brownian prey on a line is finite. Our main tool is an eigenvalue estimate for a particular spherical domain, which we obtain by a coning construction and domain perturbation.

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