Stochastic averaging for a spatial population model in random environment

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Authors Martin Friesen, Yuri Kondratiev

Publication date 9 December 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Processes in random environments (60K37)

Abstract: In this work we study the non-equilibrium Markov state evolution for a spatial population model on the space of locally finite configurations $Gamm{a}^2=Gamm{a}^{+}imesGamm{a}^{-}$ over $mathbb{R}^d$ where particles are marked by spins $pm$. Particles of type '+' reproduce themselves independently of each other and, moreover, die due to competition either among particles of the same type or particles of different type. Particles of type '-' evolve according to a non-equilibrium Glauber-type dynamics with activity $z$ and potential $psi$. Let $L^S$ be the Markov operator for '+' -particles and $L^E$ the Markov operator for '-' -particles. The non-equilibrium state evolution $(m{u}_t^{varepsilon}{)}_{tgeq0}$ is obtained from the Fokker-Planck equation with Markov operator $L^S+frac1varepsilon{L}^E$, $varepsilon>0$, which itself is studied in terms of correlation function evolution on a suitable chosen scale of Banach spaces. We prove that in the limiting regime $varepsilono0$ the state evolution $m{u}_t^{varepsilon}$ converges weakly to some state evolution $overline{mu}_t$ associated to the Fokker-Planck equation with (heuristic) Markov operator obtained from $L^S$ by averaging the interactions of the system with the environment with respect to the unique invariant Gibbs measure of the environment.

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