Stochastic order and attractiveness for particle systems with multiple births, deaths and jumps

DOI10.1214/EJP.V16-852MaRDI QIDQ638376zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Davide Borrello

Publication date 9 September 2011

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3548, http://www.emis.de/journals/EJP-ECP/_ejpecp/viewarticlefb5e.html

zbMATH Keywords

attractivenessbirth and death processescoupled random processesepidemic modelergodicityinteracting particle systemsinvariant measuremultitype contact processesreaction-diffusion processesstochastic order

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Epidemiology (92D30)

Abstract: An approach to analyse the properties of a particle system is to compare it with different processes to understand when one of them is larger than other ones. The main technique for that is coupling, which may not be easy to construct. We give a characterization of stochastic order between different interacting particle systems in a large class of processes with births, deaths and jumps of many particles per time depending on the configuration in a general way: it consists in checking inequalities involving the transition rates. We construct explicitly the coupling that characterizes the stochastic order. As a corollary we get necessary and sufficient conditions for attractiveness. As an application, we first give the conditions on examples including reaction-diffusion processes, multitype contact process and conservative dynamics and then we improve an ergodicity result for an epidemic model.

Review text

The need for realistic models of metapopulation dynamics systems [I. Hanski, (1999)] motivates the present investigation of birth, death and migration processes that refer to more than one particle per unit of time. Concepts of stochastic order and attrractiveness are borrowed from \textit{T. Gobbon} and \textit{E. Saada} [Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré, Probab. Stat. 46, No. 4, 1132--1177 (2010; Zbl 1252.60093)]. Coupled random processes are considered with a focus on attractiveness and ergodcity (existence of a unique invariant measure). For a class of processes, sufficient and necessary conditions for attractiveness are established. Major applications refer to specific reaction-diffusion processes, multitype contact processes and conservative dynamics. Ergodicity conditions are set for an individual recovery epidemic model.

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