Modeling flocks and prices: Jumping particles with an attractive interaction
Balázs, Márton ; Rácz, Miklós Z. ; Tóth, Bálint
Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 50 (2014), p. 425-454 / Harvested from Numdam
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Nous introduisons et étudions un nouveau modèle comprenant un nombre fini de particules situées sur la droite réelle et pouvant effectuer des sauts vers la droite. Les longueurs des sauts sont indépendantes du reste, mais le taux de saut de chaque particule dépend de la position relative de la particule par rapport au centre de masse du système. Les taux sont plus grands pour celles qui sont en retard, et plus petits pour celles qui sont en avance par rapport au centre de masse; cela crée ainsi une interaction attractive qui favorise la cohésion des particules. Nous montrons qu'à la limite fluide, lorsque le nombre de particules tend vers l'infini, l'évolution du système est décrite par une équation de champ moyen ayant des solutions d'ondes progressives. On présente également un lien avec les statistiques des valeurs extrêmes.

We introduce and investigate a new model of a finite number of particles jumping forward on the real line. The jump lengths are independent of everything, but the jump rate of each particle depends on the relative position of the particle compared to the center of mass of the system. The rates are higher for those left behind, and lower for those ahead of the center of mass, providing an attractive interaction keeping the particles together. We prove that in the fluid limit, as the number of particles goes to infinity, the evolution of the system is described by a mean field equation that exhibits traveling wave solutions. A connection to extreme value statistics is also provided.

Publié le : 2014-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1214/12-AIHP512
Classification:  60K35,  60J75 
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Balázs, Márton; Rácz, Miklós Z.; Tóth, Bálint. Modeling flocks and prices: Jumping particles with an attractive interaction. Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques, Tome 50 (2014) pp. 425-454. doi : 10.1214/12-AIHP512. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIHPB_2014__50_2_425_0/

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