Hydrodynamic limits and propagation of chaos for interacting random walks in domains

Citation
Chen, Zhen-qing et Fan, Wai-tong (louis), Hydrodynamic limits and propagation of chaos for interacting random walks in domains, Annals of applied probability , 27(3), 2017, pp. 1299-1371
ISSN journal
10505164
Volume
27
Issue
3
Year of publication
2017
Pages
1299 - 1371
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
A new non-conservative stochastic reaction.diffusion system in which two families of random walks in two adjacent domains interact near the interface is introduced and studied in this paper. Such a system can be used to model the transport of positive and negative charges in a solar cell or the population dynamics of two segregated species under competition. We show that in the macroscopic limit, the particle densities converge to the solution of a coupled nonlinear heat equations. For this, we first prove that propagation of chaos holds by establishing the uniqueness of a new BBGKY hierarchy. A local central limit theorem for reflected diffusions in bounded Lipschitz domains is also established as a crucial tool.