An interacting particle model with compact hierarchical structure
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instance of: scholarly article
title: An interacting particle model with compact hierarchical structure
zbMATH Open document ID: 1211.82024
published in: Physica D
publication date: 2011-01-31T00:00:00Z
review text: In the case of solutions for some problems in statistical physics and population biology we have the situation where there is a large number interacting individuals which are spatially distributed. Such models are described by a deterministic master equation, however, usually when the spatially localized interactions between individuals appear they do not lead to a closed hierarchy of reduced distribution functions (by analogy like in the case of BBGKY hierarchy) -- the evolution equation for the single particle-density function involves the pair correlation function, and the evolution equation for the pair correlation function involves the triplet function, and so on. This complicates models of biological populations. The authors of this paper formulate a model that has no such a drawback. Their model of an interacting particle system with a population of fixed size allows particles wandering randomly in space and pairs can interact at a rate determined by a reaction kernel with finite range. An assembly of \(N\) organisms is moving through a continuous space and time via diffusion. When one organism kills another a new individual is instantly born but the birth-death interaction occurs only between pairs that are sufficiently close. The proposed model is similar to the other, so far presented in the literature, however this one assumes that the interaction encoded by \(v(r)\) has a finite range \(a\) whereas in other models there is \(a\rightarrow\infty\). The authors were able to show that the basic statistical properties of such a model behavior can be found analytically. The paper consists of six sections and two appendixes. In Section 2 the reader can find a mathematical formulation of the problem which is complemented in Section 3 where there are the considerations about one-dimensional dynamics in periodic domains starting with the problem of the initial-value. Considerations are based on event-driven Monte Carlo simulations basing on the algorithm of Gilles…
reviewed by: Dominik Strzałka
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 82B41
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 82C22
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37N25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 82B80
zbMATH DE Number: 5843257
zbMATH Keywords: reaction-diffusion
zbMATH Keywords: clustering
zbMATH Keywords: particle probability density function
zbMATH Keywords: interacting particle system
author: N. J. Balmforth
author: W. R. Young
describes a project that uses: INVLAP
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.physd.2010.09.016
OpenAlex ID: W1973576332
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DOI: 10.1016/J.PHYSD.2010.09.016
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5843257