Self-organized forest-fires near the critical time

DOI10.1007/S00220-006-0025-1zbMATH Open1111.60080arXivmath/0412488OpenAlexW2118517137MaRDI QIDQ865077FDOQ865077

Authors: N. E. Zubov 

Publication date: 13 February 2007

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a forest-fire model which, somewhat informally, is described as follows: Each site (vertex) of the square lattice is either vacant or occupied by a tree.Vacant sites become occupied at rate 1. Further, each site is hit by lightningat rate lambda. This lightning instantaneously destroys (makes vacant) the occupied cluster of the site. This model is closely related to the Drossel-Schwabl forest-fire model, which has received much attention in the physics literature. The most interesting behaviour seems to occur when the lightning rate goes to zero. In the physics literature it is believed that then the system has so-called self-organized critical behaviour. We let the system start with all sites vacant and study, for positive but small lambda,the behaviour near the `critical time' tc; that is, the time after which in the modified system without lightning an infinite occupied cluster would emerge. Intuitively one might expect that if, for fixed t > tc, we let simultaneously lambda tend to 0 and m to infinity, the probability that some tree at distance smaller than m from O is burnt before time t goes to 1. However, we show that under a percolation-like assumption (which we can not prove but believe to be true) this intuition is false. We compare with the case where the square lattice is replaced by the directed binary tree, and pose some natural open problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412488

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zbMATH Keywords

forest-fire modelpercolation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Time-dependent percolation in statistical mechanics (82C43)

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