Voter model perturbations and reaction diffusion equations

zbMATH Open1277.60004arXiv1103.1676MaRDI QIDQ4917849FDOQ4917849

Authors: J. Theodore Cox, Rick Durrett, Edwin Perkins 

Publication date: 3 May 2013

Abstract: We consider particle systems that are perturbations of the voter model and show that when space and time are rescaled the system converges to a solution of a reaction diffusion equation in dimensions $dge3$. Combining this result with properties of the PDE, some methods arising from a low density super-Brownian limit theorem, and a block construction, we give general, and often asymptotically sharp, conditions for the existence of non-trivial stationary distributions, and for extinction of one type. As applications, we describe the phase diagrams of three systems when the parameters are close to the voter model: (i) a stochastic spatial Lotka-Volterra model of Neuhauser and Pacala, (ii) a model of the evolution of cooperation of Ohtsuki, Hauert, Lieberman, and Nowak, and (iii) a continuous time version of the non-linear voter model of Molofsky, Durrett, Dushoff, Griffeath, and Levin. The first application confirms a conjecture of Cox and Perkins and the second confirms a conjecture of Ohtsuki et al in the context of certain infinite graphs. An important feature of our general results is that they do not require the process to be attractive.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1676

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zbMATH Keywords

evolutionary game theoryLotka-Volterra modelvoter modelreaction diffusion equationinteracting particle models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Ecology (92D40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to probability theory (60-02) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Evolutionary games (91A22) Voting theory (91B12) Superprocesses (60J68)

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