Extinction window of mean field branching annihilating random walk

Citation
Perl, Idan et al., Extinction window of mean field branching annihilating random walk, Annals of applied probability , 25(6), 2015, pp. 3139-3161
ISSN journal
10505164
Volume
25
Issue
6
Year of publication
2015
Pages
3139 - 3161
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
We study a model of growing population that competes for resources. At each time step, all existing particles reproduce and the offspring randomly move to neighboring sites. Then at any site with more than one offspring, the particles are annihilated. This is a nonmonotone model, which makes the analysis more difficult. We consider the extinction window of this model in the finite mean-field case, where there are n sites but movement is allowed to any site (the complete graph). We show that although the system survives for exponential time, the extinction window is logarithmic.