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We describe creation and annihilation of particles at external sources in one spatial dimension in terms of interior-boundary conditions (IBCs). We derive explicit solutions for spectra, (generalised) eigenfunctions, as well as Green…

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We study the shape of the outer envelope of a branching Brownian motion (BBM) in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 2$. We focus on the extremal particles: those whose norm is within $O(1)$ of the maximal norm amongst the particles alive at time $t$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Yujin H. Kim , Ofer Zeitouni

Two density-dependent branching processes are considered to model predator-prey populations. For both models, preys are considered to be the main food supply of predators. Moreover, in each generation the number of individuals of each…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Cristina Gutiérrez , Carmen Minuesa

A phase-separation front will leave in its wake a phase-separated morphology that differs markedly from homogeneous phase-separation morphologies. For a purely diffusive system such a front, moving with constant velocity, will generate very…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-30 E. M. Foard , A. J. Wagner

Red and blue particles are placed in equal proportion through-out either the complete or star graph and iteratively sampled to take simple random walk steps. Mutual annihilation occurs when particles with different colors meet. We compare…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Irina Cristali , Yufeng Jiang , Matthew Junge , Remy Kassem , David Sivakoff , Grayson York

We study the kinetics of ballistic annihilation for a one-dimensional ideal gas with continuous velocity distribution. A dynamical scaling theory for the long time behavior of the system is derived. Its validity is supported by extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pierre-Antoine Rey , Michel Droz , Jaroslaw Piasecki

We study the diffusion front for a natural two-dimensional model where many particles starting at the origin diffuse independently. It turns out that this model can be described using properties of near-critical percolation, and provides a…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-21 Pierre Nolin

We propose a model for diffusion-limited annihilation of two species, $A+B\to A$ or $B$, where the motion of the particles is subject to a drift. For equal initial concentrations of the two species, the density follows a power-law decay for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-12 Daniel ben-Avraham , Vladimir Privman , Dexin Zhong

Bullets are fired, one per second, with independent speeds sampled uniformly from a discrete set. Collisions result in mutual annihilation. We show that the second fastest bullet survives with positive probability, while a slowest bullet…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Brittany Dygert , Christoph Kinzel , Jennifer Zhu , Matthew Junge , Annie Raymond , Erik Slivken

We develop a theory for fluctuations and correlations in a gas evolving under ballistic annihilation dynamics. Starting from the hierarchy of equations governing the evolution of microscopic densities in phase space, we subsequently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Maynar , M. I. Garcia de Soria , G. Schehr , A. Barrat , E. Trizac

A system of particles is studied in which the stochastic processes are one-particle type-change (or one-particle diffusion) and multi-particle annihilation. It is shown that, if the annihilation rate tends to zero but the initial values of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mohammad Khorrami , Amir Aghamohammadi

This paper is devoted to the study of the persistence versus extinction of species in the reaction-diffusion equation: \begin{equation} u_t-\Delta u=f(t,x_1-ct,y,u) \quad\quad t>0,\ x\in\Omega,\nonumber \end{equation} where $\Omega$ is of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-24 Hoang-Hung Vo

Properties of reaction zones resulting from A+B -> C type reaction-diffusion processes are investigated by analytical and numerical methods. The reagents A and B are separated initially and, in addition, there is an initial macroscopic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ioana Bena , Michel Droz , Kirsten Martens , Zoltan Racz

We study the pairwise annihilation process $A+A\to$ inert of a number of random walkers, which originally are localized in a small region in space. The size of the colony and the typical distance between particles increases with time and,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Foltin , Karin A. Dahmen , Nadav M. Shnerb

In this paper, we consider a simple cellular automaton with two particles of different speeds that annihilate on contact. Following a previous work by K\r urka et al., we study the asymptotic distribution, starting from a random…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Benjamin Hellouin De Menibus , Mathieu Sablik

Basic properties of Brownian motion are used to derive two results concerning birth-death chains. First, the probability of extinction is calculated. Second, sufficient conditions on the transition probabilities of a birth-death chain are…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-03-23 Greg Markowsky

We consider a system of annihilating particles where particles start from the points of a Poisson process on the line, move at constant i.i.d. speeds symmetrically distributed in {-1,0,+1} and annihilate upon collision. We prove that…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-03 Vladas Sidoravicius , Laurent Tournier

We study a simple singular control problem for a Brownian motion with constant drift and variance reflected at the origin. Exerting control pushes the process towards the origin and generates a concave increasing state-dependent yield which…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Adam Jonsson

We extend the $N$ branching Brownian motions model of population invasion to higher-order asexual reproduction. Increasing reproduction order leads to qualitative changes: invasion fronts generically cease to exist beyond binary…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Ohad Vilk , Baruch Meerson

I present a systematic analysis of formation of the universal annihilation catastrophe which develops in an open system, where species $A$ and $B$ diffuse from the bulk of restricted medium and die on its surface (desorb) by the reaction $A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris M. Shipilevsky