English

Competing frogs on $\mathbb{Z}^d$

Probability 2019-02-06 v1

Abstract

A two-type version of the frog model on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d is formulated, where active type ii particles move according to lazy random walks with probability pip_i of jumping in each time step (i=1,2i=1,2). Each site is independently assigned a random number of particles. At time 0, the particles at the origin are activated and assigned type 1 and the particles at one other site are activated and assigned type 2, while all other particles are sleeping. When an active type ii particle moves to a new site, any sleeping particles there are activated and assigned type ii, with an arbitrary tie-breaker deciding the type if the site is hit by particles of both types in the same time step. We show that the event GiG_i that type ii activates infinitely many particles has positive probability for all p1,p2(0,1]p_1,p_2\in(0,1] (i=1,2i=1,2). Furthermore, if p1=p2p_1=p_2, then the types can coexist in the sense that P(G1G2)>0\mathbb{P}(G_1\cap G_2)>0. We also formulate several open problems. For instance, we conjecture that, when the initial number of particles per site has a heavy tail, the types can coexist also when p1p2p_1\neq p_2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1902.01849,
  title  = {Competing frogs on $\mathbb{Z}^d$},
  author = {Maria Deijfen and Timo Hirscher and Fabio Lopes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.01849},
  year   = {2019}
}
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