Competing frogs on $\mathbb{Z}^d$
Abstract
A two-type version of the frog model on is formulated, where active type particles move according to lazy random walks with probability of jumping in each time step (). 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 particle moves to a new site, any sleeping particles there are activated and assigned type , 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 that type activates infinitely many particles has positive probability for all (). Furthermore, if , then the types can coexist in the sense that . 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 .
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}
}