One-dimensional voter model interface revisited

DOI10.1214/ECP.V16-1688zbMATH Open1243.60077arXiv1108.6200OpenAlexW2057432915MaRDI QIDQ428720FDOQ428720

Rongfeng Sun, Siva R. Athreya

Publication date: 22 June 2012

Published in: Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the voter model on Z, starting with all 1's to the left of the origin and all 0's to the right of the origin. It is known that if the associated random walk kernel p has zero mean and a finite r-th moment for any r>3, then the evolution of the boundaries of the interface region between 1's and 0's converge in distribution to a standard Brownian motion (B_t)_{t>0} under diffusive scaling of space and time. This convergence fails when p has an infinite r-th moment for any r<3, due to the loss of tightness caused by a few isolated 1's appearing deep within the regions of all 0's (and vice versa) at exceptional times. In this note, we show that as long as p has a finite second moment, the measure-valued process induced by the rescaled voter model configuration is tight, and converges weakly to the measure-valued process 1_{x<B_t}dx, t>0.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6200

zbMATH Keywords

tightnessmeasure-valued processvoter model interface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

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