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Geometry for a `penguin-albatross' rookery

Populations and Evolution 2014-05-22 v1 Statistical Mechanics Biological Physics

Abstract

We introduce a simple ecological model describing the spatial organization of two interacting populations whose individuals are indifferent to conspecifics and avoid the proximity to heterospecifics. At small population densities Φ\Phi a non-trivial structure is observed where clusters of individuals arrange into a rhomboidal bipartite network with an average degree of four. For Φ0\Phi\rightarrow0 the length scale, order parameter and susceptibility of the network exhibit power-law divergences compatible with hyper-scaling, suggesting the existence of a zero density - non-trivial - critical point. At larger densities a critical threshold Φc\Phi_{c} is identified above which the evolution toward a partially ordered configuration is prevented and the system becomes jammed in a fully mixed state.

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@article{arxiv.1405.5514,
  title  = {Geometry for a `penguin-albatross' rookery},
  author = {Fabio Giavazzi and Alberto Vailati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.5514},
  year   = {2014}
}
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