The biased annihilating branching process

Citation
Neuhauser, Claudia et Sudbury, Aidan, The biased annihilating branching process, Advances in applied probability , 25(1), 1993, pp. 24-38
ISSN journal
00018678
Volume
25
Issue
1
Year of publication
1993
Pages
24 - 38
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
In the biased annihilating branching process, particles place offspring on empty neighboring sites at rate A and destroy neighbors at rate 1. It is conjectured that for any . . 0 the population will spread to ., and this is shown in one dimension for The process on a finite graph when starting with a non-empty configuration has limiting distribution v. /(. +1), the product measure with density ./(1 +.). It is shown that v. /(. +1) and . Ø are the only stationary distributions on Moreover, if and the initial configuration is non-empty, then the limiting measure is v. /(. +1) provided the initial measure converges.