Voting models and semilinear parabolic equations

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AD001CMaRDI QIDQ6089735zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jing An, Christopher Henderson, Lenya Ryzhik

Publication date 15 December 2023

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

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

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)

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.

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