Time to absorption for a heterogeneous neutral competition model

DOI10.1007/S10955-014-0989-8zbMATH Open1300.60109arXiv1311.4368OpenAlexW2079724440MaRDI QIDQ458427FDOQ458427

Amos Maritan, Paolo Dai Pra, Markus Fischer, Claudio Borile, Marco Formentin

Publication date: 7 October 2014

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

Abstract: Neutral models aspire to explain biodiversity patterns in ecosystems where species difference can be neglected, as it might occur at a specific trophic level, and perfect symmetry is assumed between species. Voter-like models capture the essential ingredients of the neutral hypothesis and represent a paradigm for other disciplines like social studies and chemical reactions. In a system where each individual can interact with all the other members of the community, the typical time to reach an absorbing state with a single species scales linearly with the community size. Here we show, by using a rigorous approach within a large deviation principle and confirming previous approximate and numerical results, that in a heterogeneous voter model the typical time to reach an absorbing state scales exponentially with the system size, suggestive of an asymptotic active phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4368

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zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsneutral models of biodiversitystochastic dynamics with quenched disordervoter model with disorder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Processes in random environments (60K37) Voting theory (91B12)

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