Meteor process on Z^d

DOI10.1007/S00440-014-0602-8zbMATH Open1327.60181arXiv1312.6865OpenAlexW1570733918MaRDI QIDQ892164FDOQ892164

Authors: K. Burdzy 

Publication date: 18 November 2015

Published in: Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The meteor process is a model for mass redistribution on a graph. The case of finite graphs was analyzed in cite{BBPS}. This paper is devoted to the meteor process on ${mathbbZ}^d$. The process is constructed and a stationary distribution is found. Convergence to this stationary distribution is proved for a large family of initial distributions. The first two moments of the mass distribution at a vertex are computed for the stationary distribution. For the one-dimensional lattice $mathbbZ$, the net flow of mass between adjacent vertices is shown to have bounded variance as time goes to infinity. An alternative representation of the process on $mathbbZ$ as a collection of non-crossing paths is presented. The distributions of a "tracer particle" in this system of non-crossing paths are shown to be tight as time goes to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6865

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov processesmass redistributionmeteor process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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