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The frog model on non-amenable trees

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Abstract

We examine an interacting particle system on trees commonly referred to as the frog model. For its initial state, it begins with a single active particle at the root and i.i.d. Poiss(λ)\mathrm{Poiss}(\lambda) many inactive particles at each non-root vertex. Active particles perform discrete time simple random walk and in the process activate any inactive particles they encounter. We show that for every\textit{every} non-amenable tree with bounded degree there exists a phase transition from transience to recurrence (with a non-trivial intermediate phase sometimes sandwiched in between) as λ\lambda varies.

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@article{arxiv.1910.05133,
  title  = {The frog model on non-amenable trees},
  author = {Marcus Michelen and Josh Rosenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.05133},
  year   = {2019}
}
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