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Fluctuations of the occupation density for a parking process

Probability 2024-05-24 v2

Abstract

Consider the following simple parking process on Λn:={n,,n}d,d1\Lambda_n := \{-n, \ldots, n\}^d,d\ge1: at each step, a site ii is chosen at random in Λn\Lambda_n and if ii and all its nearest neighbor sites are empty, ii is occupied. Once occupied, a site remains so forever. The process continues until all sites in Λn\Lambda_n are either occupied or have at least one of their nearest neighbors occupied. The final configuration (occupancy) of Λn\Lambda_n is called the jamming limit and is denoted by XΛnX_{\Lambda_n}. Ritchie (2006) constructed a stationary random field on Zd\mathbb Z^d obtained as a (thermodynamic) limit of the XΛnX_{\Lambda_n}'s as nn tends to infinity. As a consequence of his construction, he proved a strong law of large numbers for the proportion of occupied sites in the box Λn\Lambda_n for the random field XX. Here we prove the central limit theorem, the law of iterated logarithm, and a gaussian concentration inequality for the same statistics. A particular attention will be given to the case d=1d=1, in which we also obtain new asymptotic properties for the sequence XΛn,n1X_{\Lambda_n},n\ge1 as well as a new proof to the closed-form formula for the occupation density of the parking process.

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@article{arxiv.2311.10000,
  title  = {Fluctuations of the occupation density for a parking process},
  author = {Cristian F. Coletti and Sandro Gallo and Alejandro Roldán-Correa and León A. Valencia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.10000},
  year   = {2024}
}

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19 pages, 1 figure