The frog model on non-amenable trees
Probability
2019-10-14 v1
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. 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 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 varies.
Cite
@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}
}