The frog model on Galton-Watson trees

arXiv1910.02367MaRDI QIDQ6503479FDOQ6503479

Authors: Marcus Michelen, Josh Rosenberg 

Abstract: We consider an interacting particle system on trees known as the frog model: initially, a single active particle begins at the root and i.i.d. $mathrmPoiss(lambda)$ many inactive particles are placed at each non-root vertex. Active particles perform discrete time simple random walk and activate the inactive particles they encounter. We show that for Galton-Watson trees with offspring distributions $Z$ satisfying $mathbfP(Zgeq2)=1$ and $mathbfE[Z^{4+epsilon}]<infty$ for some $epsilon>0$, there is a critical value $lambd{a}_{c}in(0,infty)$ separating recurrent and transient regimes for almost surely every tree, thereby answering a question of Hoffman-Johnson-Junge. In addition, we also establish that this critical parameter depends on the entire offspring distribution, not just the maximum value of $Z$, answering another question of Hoffman-Johnson-Junge and showing that the frog model and contact process behave differently on Galton-Watson trees.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

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