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Understanding the asymptotic behavior of reaction-diffusion (RD) systems is crucial for modeling processes ranging from species coexistence in ecology to biochemical interactions within cells. In this work, we analyze RD systems in which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Carlos Barajas , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Domitilla Del Vecchio

We consider weakly interacting jump processes on time-varying random graphs with dynamically changing multi-color edges. The system consists of a large number of nodes in which the node dynamics depends on the joint empirical distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Ruoyu Wu

Given a class $\mathcal G$ of graphs, let ${\mathcal G}_n$ denote the set of graphs in $\mathcal G$ on vertex set $[n]$. For certain classes $\mathcal G$, we are interested in the asymptotic behaviour of a random graph $R_n$ sampled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Colin McDiarmid

Shape formation is a basic distributed problem for systems of computational mobile entities. Intensively studied for systems of autonomous mobile robots, it has recently been investigated in the realm of programmable matter. Namely, it has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Paola Flocchini , Nicola Santoro , Giovanni Viglietta , Yukiko Yamauchi

We introduce a definition of finite-time curvature evolution along with our recent study on shape coherence in nonautonomous dynamical systems. Comparing to slow evolving curvature preserving the shape, large curvature growth points reveal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Tian Ma , Erik Bollt

We consider a model of interface growth in two dimensions, given by a height function on the sites of the one--dimensional integer lattice. According to the discrete time update rule, the height above the site $x$ increases to the height…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Janko Gravner , Craig A. Tracy , Harold Widom

Hypothesis Understanding wetting behavior is of great importance for natural systems and technological applications. The traditional concept of contact angle, a purely geometrical measure related to curvature, is often used for…

Inspired by biological systems, we introduce a general framework for quasi-static shape control of human-scale structures under slowly varying external actions or requirements. In this setting, shape control aims to traverse the stable…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-17 Eszter Fehér , András Árpád Sipos , Péter Várkonyi

Starting from a three-dimensional description of an active nematic layer, we employ an asymptotic theory to derive a series of low-dimensional continuum models that capture the coupled dynamics of flat and curved films, including variations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-23 Mehrana R. Nejad , L. Mahadevan

We study asymptotic dynamical patterns that emerge among a set of nodes that interact in a dynamically evolving signed random network. Node interactions take place at random on a sequence of deterministic signed graphs. Each node receives…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Guodong Shi , Alexandre Proutiere , Mikael Johansson , John. S. Baras , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper,under an abstract setting we establish the existence of spatially inhomogeneous steady states and the asymptotic propagation properties for a large class of monotone evolution systems without spatial translation invariance.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Taishan Yi , Xiao-Qiang Zhao

A stationary Poisson line tessellation is considered whose directional distribution is concentrated on two different atoms with some positive weights. The shape of the typical cell of such a tessellation is studied when its area or its…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Mareen Beermann , Claudia Redenbach , Christoph Thaele

We consider the following activation process in undirected graphs: a vertex is active either if it belongs to a set of initially activated vertices or if at some point it has at least $r$ active neighbors, where $r>1$ is the activation…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Uriel Feige , Michael Krivelevich , Daniel Reichman

Epidemic spreading is well understood when a disease propagates around a contact graph. In a stochastic susceptible-infected-susceptible setting, spectral conditions characterise whether the disease vanishes. However, modelling human…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Desmond John Higham , Henry-Louis de Kergorlay

Branching processes in a varying environment encompass a wide range of stochastic demographic models, and their complete understanding in terms of limit behaviour poses a formidable research challenge. In this paper, we conduct a thorough…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Serik Sagitov , Alexey Lindo , Yerakhmet Zhumayev

Point processes model the distribution of random point sets in mathematical spaces, such as spatial and temporal domains, with applications in fields like seismology, neuroscience, and economics. Existing statistical and machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 David Lüdke , Enric Rabasseda Raventós , Marcel Kollovieh , Stephan Günnemann

The Contact Process has been studied on complex networks exhibiting different kinds of quenched disorder. Numerical evidence is found for Griffiths phases and other rare region effects, in Erd\H os R\'enyi networks, leading rather…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-27 Géza Ódor

Human contact networks are constituted by a multitude of individuals and pairwise contacts among them. However, the dynamic nature, which generates the evolution of human contact networks, of contact patterns is not known yet. Here, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-22 Cong Li , Jing Li , Xiang Li

We prove, for a class of contact manifolds, that the universal cover of the group of contact diffeomorphisms carries a natural partial order. It leads to a new viewpoint on geometry and dynamics of contactomorphisms. It gives rise to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yakov Eliashberg , Leonid Polterovich

Contact processes play an important role in classical non-equilibrium dynamics, describing the spreading of diseases, the dynamics of earthquakes and forest fires, and the distribution of information through the internet. Here we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Julius Bohm , Richard Schmidt , Michael Fleischhauer , Daniel Brady