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To fixate or not to fixate in two-type annihilating branching random walks

Probability 2020-10-22 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study a model of competition between two types evolving as branching random walks on Zd\mathbb{Z}^d. The two types are represented by red and blue balls respectively, with the rule that balls of different colour annihilate upon contact. We consider initial configurations in which the sites of Zd\mathbb{Z}^d contain one ball each, which are independently coloured red with probability pp and blue otherwise. We address the question of \emph{fixation}, referring to the sites eventually settling for a given colour, or not. Under a mild moment condition on the branching rule, we prove that the process will fixate almost surely for p1/2p\neq 1/2, and that every site will change colour infinitely often almost surely for the balanced initial condition p=1/2p=1/2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2002.09222,
  title  = {To fixate or not to fixate in two-type annihilating branching random walks},
  author = {Daniel Ahlberg and Simon Griffiths and Svante Janson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09222},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

36 pages. A more careful construction of the annihilating process added in second version

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