The nonhomogeneous frog model on Z

DOI10.1017/JPR.2018.73zbMATH Open1405.60129arXiv1707.07749OpenAlexW2909112372MaRDI QIDQ4611272FDOQ4611272

Authors: Josh Rosenberg 

Publication date: 17 January 2019

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine a system of interacting random walks with leftward drift on $mathbbZ$, which begins with a single active particle at the origin and some distribution of inactive particles on the positive integers. Inactive particles become activated when landed on by other particles, and all particles beginning at the same point posses equal leftward drift. Once activated, the trajectories of distinct particles are independent. This system belongs to a broader class of problems involving interacting random walks on rooted graphs, referred to collectively as the frog model. Additional conditions that we impose on our model include that the number of frogs (i.e. particles) at positive integer points is a sequence of independent random variables which is increasing in terms of the standard stochastic order, and that the sequence of leftward drifts associated with frogs originating at these points is decreasing. Our results include sharp conditions with respect to the sequence of random variables and the sequence of drifts, that determine whether the model is transient (meaning the probability infinitely many frogs return to the origin is $0$) or non-transient. Several, more specific, versions of the model described will also be considered, and a cleaner, more simplified set of sharp conditions will be established for each case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07749

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zbMATH Keywords

driftcouplingtransiencefrog model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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