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Diffusion-limited annihilating-coalescing systems

Probability 2025-11-04 v1

Abstract

We study a family of interacting particle systems with annihilating and coalescing reactions. Two types of particles are interspersed throughout a transitive unimodular graph. Both types diffuse as simple random walks with possibly different jump rates. Upon colliding, like particles coalesce up to some cap and unlike particles annihilate. We describe a phase transition as the initial particle density is varied and provide estimates for the expected occupation time of the root. For the symmetric setting with no cap on coalescence, we prove that the limiting occupation probability of the root is asymptotic to 2/3 the occupation probability for classical coalescing random walk. This addresses an open problem from Stephenson.

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@article{arxiv.2305.19333,
  title  = {Diffusion-limited annihilating-coalescing systems},
  author = {Sungwon Ahn and Matthew Junge and Hanbaek Lyu and Lily Reeves and Jacob Richey and David Sivakoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19333},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures

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