Quasi-stationary regime of a branching random walk in presence of an absorbing wall

DOI10.1007/S10955-008-9504-4zbMATH Open1144.82321arXiv0710.3689OpenAlexW2054853968MaRDI QIDQ925244FDOQ925244

Authors: Damien Simon, Bernard Derrida 

Publication date: 3 June 2008

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A branching random walk in presence of an absorbing wall moving at a constant velocity $v$ undergoes a phase transition as the velocity $v$ of the wall varies. Below the critical velocity $v_c$, the population has a non-zero survival probability and when the population survives its size grows exponentially. We investigate the histories of the population conditioned on having a single survivor at some final time $T$. We study the quasi-stationary regime for $v<v_c$ when $T$ is large. To do so, one can construct a modified stochastic process which is equivalent to the original process conditioned on having a single survivor at final time $T$. We then use this construction to show that the properties of the quasi-stationary regime are universal when $vo{v}_c$. We also solve exactly a simple version of the problem, the exponential model, for which the study of the quasi-stationary regime can be reduced to the analysis of a single one-dimensional map.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3689

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zbMATH Keywords

birth-death processestraveling wavesbranching random walksquasi-stationary regimetransition to an absorbing state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41)

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