An annihilating-branching particle model for the heat equation with average temperature zero

DOI10.1214/009117906000000511zbMATH Open1122.60085arXivmath/0503395OpenAlexW3100661957MaRDI QIDQ874741FDOQ874741

K. Burdzy, J. D. Quastel

Publication date: 10 April 2007

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

Abstract: We consider two species of particles performing random walks in a domain in $mathbb{R}^d$ with reflecting boundary conditions, which annihilate on contact. In addition, there is a conservation law so that the total number of particles of each type is preserved: When the two particles of different species annihilate each other, particles of each species, chosen at random, give birth. We assume initially equal numbers of each species and show that the system has a diffusive scaling limit in which the densities of the two species are well approximated by the positive and negative parts of the solution of the heat equation normalized to have constant $L^1$ norm. In particular, the higher Neumann eigenfunctions appear as asymptotically stable states at the diffusive time scale.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503395

zbMATH Keywords

heat equationhydrodynamic limitbranching random walkNeumann eigenfunction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17)

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