The shadow principle: an optimal survival strategy for a prey chased by random predators

DOI10.1016/j.physa.2013.02.020zbMath1395.60084OpenAlexW2043134919WikidataQ115568018 ScholiaQ115568018MaRDI QIDQ1672990

Peng Zhang

Publication date: 11 September 2018

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2013.02.020

zbMATH Keywords

random walkssurvival probabilityPascal principleannihilation process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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Cites Work

• Recurrent graphs where two independent random walks collide finitely often

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