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Absorbing-state phase transition and activated random walks with unbounded capacities

Probability 2022-06-16 v2

Abstract

In this article, we study the existence of an absorbing-state phase transition of an Abelian process that generalises the Activated Random Walk (ARW). Given a vertex transitive G=(V,E)G=(V,E), we associate to each site xVx \in V a capacity wx0w_x \ge 0, which describes how many inactive particles xx can hold, where {wx}xV\{w_x\}_{x \in V} is a collection of i.i.d random variables. When GG is an amenable graph, we prove that if E[wx]<\mathbb E[w_x]<\infty, the model goes through an absorbing state phase transition and if E[wx]=\mathbb E[w_x]=\infty, the model fixates for all λ>0\lambda>0. Moreover, in the former case, we provide bounds for the critical density that match the ones available in the classical Activated Random Walk.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2108.03038,
  title  = {Absorbing-state phase transition and activated random walks with unbounded capacities},
  author = {Leandro Chiarini and Alexandre Stauffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03038},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

11 pages, 1 figure. Revised version, fixed typos and improved the proof of main theorem

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