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Stretched Exponential Relaxation in the Biased Random Voter Model

Mathematical Physics 2009-10-31 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We study the relaxation properties of the voter model with i.i.d. random bias. We prove under mild condions that the disorder-averaged relaxation of this biased random voter model is faster than a stretched exponential with exponent d/(d+α)d/(d+\alpha), where 0<α20<\alpha\le 2 depends on the transition rates of the non-biased voter model. Under an additional assumption, we show that the above upper bound is optimal. The main ingredient of our proof is a result of Donsker and Varadhan (1979).

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/9903002,
  title  = {Stretched Exponential Relaxation in the Biased Random Voter Model},
  author = {Jan Naudts and Frank Redig and Stefan Van Gulck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/9903002},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, AMS-LaTeX