Branching Random Walks in Random Environment: A Survey
Author | : Wolfgang König |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1303391530 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Download or read book Branching Random Walks in Random Environment: A Survey written by Wolfgang König and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We consider branching particle processes on discrete structures like the hypercube in a random fitness landscape (i.e., random branching/killing rates). The main question is about the location where the main part of the population sits at a late time, if the state space is large. For answering this, we take the expectation with respect to the migration (mutation) and the branching/killing (selection) mechanisms, for fixed rates. This is intimately connected with the parabolic Anderson model, the heat equation with random potential, a model that is of interest in mathematical physics because of the observed prominent effect of intermittency (local concentration of the mass of the solution in small islands). We present several advances in the investigation of this effect, also related to questions inspired from biology.