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Particle density in diffusion-limited annihilating systems

Probability 2023-08-02 v3

Abstract

Place an AA-particle at each site of a graph independently with probability pp and otherwise place a BB-particle. AA- and BB-particles perform independent continuous time random walks at rates λA\lambda_A and λB\lambda_B, respectively, and annihilate upon colliding with a particle of opposite type. Bramson and Lebowitz studied the setting λA=λB\lambda_A = \lambda_B in the early 1990s. Despite recent progress, many basic questions remain unanswered for when λAλB\lambda_A \neq \lambda_B. For the critical case p=1/2p=1/2 on low-dimensional integer lattices, we give a lower bound on the expected number of particles at the origin that matches physicists' predictions. For the process with λB=0\lambda_B=0 on the integers and the bidirected regular tree, we give sharp upper and lower bounds for the expected total occupation time of the root at and approaching criticality.

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@article{arxiv.2005.06018,
  title  = {Particle density in diffusion-limited annihilating systems},
  author = {Tobias Johnson and Matthew Junge and Hanbaek Lyu and David Sivakoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06018},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

3 figures, 44 pages; accepted draft at Annals of Probability

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