Voting models and semilinear parabolic equations

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AD001CzbMATH Open1529.35285arXiv2209.03435OpenAlexW4387616494MaRDI QIDQ6089735FDOQ6089735

Authors: Jing An, Christopher Henderson, Lenya Ryzhik 

Publication date: 15 December 2023

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present probabilistic interpretations of solutions to semi-linear parabolic equations with polynomial nonlinearities in terms of the voting models on the genealogical trees of branching Brownian motion (BBM). These extend the connection between the Fisher-KPP equation and BBM discovered by McKean in~cite{McK}. In particular, we present ``random outcome and ``random threshold voting models that yield any polynomial nonlinearity $f$ satisfying $f(0)=f(1)=0$ and a ``recursive up the tree model that allows to go beyond this restriction on $f$. We compute a few examples of particular interest; for example, we obtain a curious interpretation of the heat equation in terms of a nontrivial voting model and a ``group-based voting rule that leads to a probabilistic view of the pushmi-pullyu transition for a class of nonlinearities introduced by Ebert and van Saarloos.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03435

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zbMATH Keywords

reaction-diffusion equationssemilinear equationsinteracting particle systemsbranching Brownian motionvoting modelspolynomial nonlinearitie

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Semilinear parabolic equations (35K58)

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