The upper threshold in ballistic annihilation

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Authors Debbie Burdinski, Shrey Gupta, Matthew Junge

Publication date 11 October 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10969, http://alea.impa.br/articles/v16/16-39.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

interacting particle system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

Abstract: Three-speed ballistic annihilation starts with infinitely many particles on the real line. Each is independently assigned either speed-$0$ with probability $p$, or speed-$pm1$ symmetrically with the remaining probability. All particles simultaneously begin moving at their assigned speeds and mutually annihilate upon colliding. Physicists conjecture when $pleq{p}_c=1/4$ all particles are eventually annihilated. Dygert et. al. prove $p_{c}leq.3313$, while Sidoravicius and Tournier describe an approach to prove $p_{c}leq.3281$. For the variant in which particles start at the integers, we improve the bound to $.2870$. A renewal property lets us equate survival of a particle to the survival of a Galton-Watson process whose offspring distribution a computer can rigorously approximate. This approach may help answer the nearly thirty-year old conjecture that $p_c>0$.

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