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Cover time for the frog model on trees

Probability 2019-12-04 v3

Abstract

The frog model is a branching random walk on a graph in which particles branch only at unvisited sites. Consider an initial particle density of μ\mu on the full dd-ary tree of height nn. If μ=Ω(d2)\mu= \Omega( d^2), all of the vertices are visited in time Θ(nlogn)\Theta(n\log n) with high probability. Conversely, if μ=O(d)\mu = O(d) the cover time is exp(Θ(n))\exp(\Theta(\sqrt n)) with high probability.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1802.03428,
  title  = {Cover time for the frog model on trees},
  author = {Christopher Hoffman and Tobias Johnson and Matthew Junge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03428},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

36 pages; revisions in response to referees' comments; accepted in Forum of Math Sigma, Probability

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