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

DOI10.1007/S10955-012-0549-ZzbMATH Open1465.92011arXiv0807.1750OpenAlexW2964180864MaRDI QIDQ453764FDOQ453764

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)

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 $Z_n(t)$.

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

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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)

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