Stretched exponential decay for subcritical parking times on $\mathbb{Z}^d$
Abstract
In the parking model on , each vertex is initially occupied by a car (with probability ) or by a vacant parking spot (with probability ). Cars perform independent random walks and when they enter a vacant spot, they park there, thereby rendering the spot occupied. Cars visiting occupied spots simply keep driving (continuing their random walk). It is known that is a critical value in the sense that the origin is a.s. visited by finitely many distinct cars when , and by infinitely many distinct cars when . Furthermore, any given car a.s. eventually parks for and with positive probability does not park for . We study the subcritical phase and prove that the tail of the parking time of the car initially at the origin obeys the bounds for sufficiently small. For , we prove these inequalities for all . This result presents an asymmetry with the supercritical phase (), where methods of Bramson--Lebowitz imply that for the corresponding tail of the parking time of the parking spot of the origin decays like . Our exponent also differs from those previously obtained in the case of moving obstacles.
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@article{arxiv.2008.05072,
title = {Stretched exponential decay for subcritical parking times on $\mathbb{Z}^d$},
author = {Michael Damron and Hanbaek Lyu and David Sivakoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.05072},
year = {2020}
}
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10 pages