A Markovian growth dynamics on rooted binary trees evolving according to the Gompertz curve

DOI10.1007/S10955-012-0549-ZMaRDI QIDQ453764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. D. Portugal, C. Landim, B. F. Svaiter

Publication date 27 September 2012

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1750

zbMATH Keywords

agingmitosisGompertz curverandom binary treesgrowth process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J28) Developmental biology, pattern formation (92C15) Cell biology (92C37)

Abstract: Inspired by biological dynamics, we consider a growth Markov process taking values on the space of rooted binary trees, similar to the Aldous-Shields model. Fix $nge1$ and $$. We start at time 0 with the tree composed of a root only. At any time, each node with no descendants, independently from the other nodes, produces two successors at rate $$, where $k$ is the distance from the node to the root. Denote by $Z_n(t)$ the number of nodes with no descendants at time $t$ and let $$. We prove that $2^{-n}{Z}_n(T_n+nau)$, $$, converges to the Gompertz curve $$. We also prove a central limit theorem for the martingale associated to $Z_n(t)$.

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