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Asymmetric cooperative motion in one dimension

Probability 2021-10-26 v2 Numerical Analysis Analysis of PDEs Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We prove distributional convergence for a family of random processes on Z\mathbb{Z}, which we call asymmetric cooperative motions. The model generalizes the "totally asymmetric hipster random walk" introduced in [Addario-Berry, Cairns, Devroye, Kerriou and Mitchell, 2020]. We present a novel approach based on connecting a temporal recurrence relation satisfied by the cumulative distribution functions of the process to the theory of finite difference schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi equations [Crandall and Lyons, 1984]. We also point out some surprising lattice effects that can persist in the distributional limit, and propose several generalizations and directions for future research.

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@article{arxiv.2104.03369,
  title  = {Asymmetric cooperative motion in one dimension},
  author = {Louigi Addario-Berry and Erin Beckman and Jessica Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03369},
  year   = {2021}
}

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28 pages, to appear in Transactions of the AMS

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