Stochastic flows, reaction-diffusion processes, and morphogenesis

DOI10.1007/BF01012301MaRDI QIDQ1072234zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John J. Kozak, Michael D. Hatlee, Matthew K. Musho, Philip A. Politowicz, Cecilia A. Walsh

Publication date 1983

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01012301

zbMATH Keywords

chaosexpected walk lengthirreversible reactionslattice statisticsrandom displacementsreaction-diffusion processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

Review text

Recently, an exact procedure has been introduced by \textit{C. A. Walsh} and \textit{J. J. Kozak}, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1500 ff (1981)] for calculating the expected walk length \(<n>\) for a walker undergoing random displacements on a finite or infinite (periodic) d-dimensional lattice with traps (reactive sites). The method is applied here to several problems in lattice statistics for each of which exact results are presented. First, we assess the importance of lattice geometry in influencing the efficiency of reaction-diffusion processes in simple and multiple trap systems by reporting values of \(<n>\) for square (cubic) versus hexagonal lattices in \(d=2,3\). We then show how the method may be applied to variable-step (distance-dependent) walks for a single walker on a given lattice and also demonstrate the calculation of the expected walk length \(<n>\) for the case of multiple walkers. Finally, we make contact with recent discussions of mixing by showing that the degree of chaos associated with flows in certain lattice systems can be calibrated by monitoring the lattice walks induced by the Poincaré map of a certain parabolic function.

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