Infinite rate symbiotic branching on the real line: The tired frogs model

Achim Klenke, Leonid Mytnik

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Abstract

Consider a population of infinitesimally small frogs on the real line. Initially the frogs on the positive half-line are dormant while those on the negative half-line are awake and move according to the heat flow. At the interface, the incoming wake frogs try to wake up the dormant frogs and succeed with a probability proportional to their amount among the total amount of involved frogs at the specific site. Otherwise, the incoming frogs also fall asleep. This frog model is a special case of the infinite rate symbiotic branching process on the real line with different motion speeds for the two types. We construct this frog model as the limit of approximating processes and compute the structure of jumps. We show that our frog model can be described by a stochastic partial differential equation on the real line with a jump type noise.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)847-883
Number of pages37
JournalAnnales de l'institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics
Volume56
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Frog model
  • Infinite rate branching
  • Mutually catalytic branching
  • Stochastic partial differential equation
  • Symbiotic branching

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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