Voting models and semilinear parabolic equations
| Autor: | An, Jing, Henderson, Christopher, Ryzhik, Lenya |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We present probabilistic interpretations of solutions to semi-linear parabolic equations with polynomial nonlinearities in terms of the voting models on the genealogical trees of branching Brownian motion (BBM). These extend the connection between the Fisher-KPP equation and BBM discovered by McKean in~\cite{McK}. In particular, we present ``random outcome'' and ``random threshold'' voting models that yield any polynomial nonlinearity $f$ satisfying $f(0)=f(1)=0$ and a ``recursive up the tree'' model that allows to go beyond this restriction on $f$. We compute a few examples of particular interest; for example, we obtain a curious interpretation of the heat equation in terms of a nontrivial voting model and a ``group-based'' voting rule that leads to a probabilistic view of the pushmi-pullyu transition for a class of nonlinearities introduced by Ebert and van Saarloos. Comment: 20 pages |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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