A phase transition in excursions from infinity of the ``fast fragmentation-coalescence process

DOI10.1214/16-AOP1150MaRDI QIDQ682250zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven W. Pagett, Tim Rogers, A. E. Kyprianou, Jason Schweinsberg

Publication date 14 February 2018

Published in The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05241, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1511773665

zbMATH Keywords

coalescencefragmentationexcursion theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Exchangeability for stochastic processes (60G09)

Abstract: An important property of Kingman's coalescent is that, starting from a state with an infinite number of blocks, over any positive time horizon, it transitions into an almost surely finite number of blocks. This is known as `coming down from infinity'. Moreover, of the many different (exchangeable) stochastic coalescent models, Kingman's coalescent is the `fastest' to come down from infinity. In this article we study what happens when we counteract this `fastest' coalescent with the action of an extreme form of fragmentation. We augment Kingman's coalescent, where any two blocks merge at rate $c>0$, with a fragmentation mechanism where each block fragments at constant rate, $lambda>0$, into it's constituent elements. We prove that there exists a phase transition at $lambda=c/2$, between regimes where the resulting `fast' fragmentation-coalescence process is able to come down from infinity or not. In the case that $lambda<c/2$ we develop an excursion theory for the fast fragmentation-coalescence process out of which a number of interesting quantities can be computed explicitly.

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