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We consider the following interacting particle system: There is a ``gas'' of particles, each of which performs a continuous time simple random walk on the d-dimensional lattice. These particles are called A-particles and move independently…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Harry Kesten , Vladas Sidoravicius

We show that a certain model for the spread of an infection has a phase transition in the recuperation rate. The model is as follows: There are particles or individuals of type A and type B, interpreted as healthy and infected,…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Harry Kesten , Vladas Sidoravicius

We study the dynamics of information (or virus) dissemination by $m$ mobile agents performing independent random walks on an $n$-node grid. We formulate our results in terms of two scenarios: broadcasting and gossiping. In the broadcasting…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-01-26 Alberto Pettarin , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

We study infection spread among biased random walks on $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$. The random walks move independently and an infected particle is placed at the origin at time zero. Infection spreads instantaneously when particles share the same site…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Rangel Baldasso , Alexandre Stauffer

We study four discrete time stochastic systems on $\bbN$ modeling processes of rumour spreading. The involved individuals can either have an active or a passive role, speaking up or asking for the rumour. The appetite in spreading or…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Valdivino V. Junior , Fabio P. Machado , Mauricio Zuluaga

We study a system of random walks, known as the frog model, starting from a profile of independent Poisson($\lambda$) particles per site, with one additional active particle planted at some vertex $\mathbf{o}$ of a finite connected simple…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Itai Benjamini , Luiz Renato Fontes , Jonathan Hermon , Fabio Prates Machado

We consider an interacting particle system representing the spread of a rumor by agents on the $d$-dimensional integer lattice. Each agent may be in any of the three states belonging to the set {0,1,2}. Here 0 stands for ignorants, 1 for…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Cristian F. Coletti , Pablo M. Rodriguez , Rinaldo B. Schinazi

We examine the interplay of motility and information exchange in a model of run-and-tumble active particles where the particle's motility is encoded as a bit of information that can be exchanged upon contact according to the rules of AND…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-25 Matteo Paoluzzi , Marco Leoni , M Cristina Marchetti

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

We study the spread of a persuasive new idea through a population of continuous-time random walkers in one dimension. The idea spreads via social gatherings involving groups of nearby walkers who act according to a biased "majority rule":…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-01-09 James Burridge , Michal Gnacik

We study the spread of an infection on top of a moving population. The environment evolves as a zero range process on the integer lattice starting in equilibrium. At time zero, the set of infected particles is composed by those which are on…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Rangel Baldasso , Augusto Teixeira

In this paper we consider a model of spreading information in heterogeneous systems wherein we have two kinds of objects. Some of them are active and others are passive. Active objects can, if they possess information, share it with an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Jacek Cichoń , Zbigniew Goł\eobbiewski , Marcin Kardas , Marek Klonowski , Filip Zagórski

We introduce an interacting particle system that models the spread of an epidemic in terms of heterogeneous diffusive dynamics, rather than exogenous contact and transmission rates at the population level as in classical compartmental…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Eliana Fausti , Andreas Sojmark

The asynchronous rumor algorithm spreading propagates a piece of information, the so-called rumor, in a network. Starting with a single informed node, each node is associated with an exponential time clock with rate $1$ and calls a random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ali Pourmiri , Bernard Mans

In this work we study a branching particle system of diffusion processes on the real line interacting through their rank in the system. Namely, each particle follows an independent Brownian motion, but only K $\ge$ 1 particles on the far…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Mete Demircigil , Milica Tomasevic

The goal of this note is to prove a law of large numbers for the empirical speed of a green particle that performs a random walk on top of a field of red particles which themselves perform independent simple random walks on $\Z^d$, $d \geq…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Frank den Hollander , Harry Kesten , Vladas Sidoravicius

We consider a model where an infection moves through a collection of particles performing independent random walks. In this model, Kesten and Sidoravicius established linear growth of the infected region when infected and susceptible…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Duncan Dauvergne , Allan Sly

We introduce a model of epidemics among moving particles on any locally finite graph. At any time, each vertex is empty, occupied by a healthy particle, or occupied by an infected particle. Infected particles recover at rate $1$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-04 M. Hilário , D. Ungaretti , D. Valesin , M. E. Vares

We study the following microscopic model of infection or epidemic reaction: red and blue particles perform independent nearest-neighbor continuous-time symmetric random walks on the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}$ with jump rates $D_R$ for red…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Jean Bérard , Alejandro Ramírez

In a collection of particles performing independent random walks on $\mathbb Z^d$ we study the spread of an infection with SIR dynamics. Susceptible particles become infected when they meet an infected particle. Infected particles heal and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Duncan Dauvergne , Allan Sly
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