Entrance laws for annihilating Brownian motions and the continuous-space voter model

Matthias Hammer, Marcel Ortgiese and Florian Völlering

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2021, vol. 134, issue C, 240-264

Abstract: Consider a system of particles moving independently as Brownian motions until two of them meet, when the colliding pair annihilates instantly. The construction of such a system of annihilating Brownian motions (aBMs) is straightforward as long as we start with a finite number of particles, but is more involved for infinitely many particles. In particular, if we let the set of starting points become increasingly dense in the real line it is not obvious whether the resulting systems of aBMs converge and what the possible limit points (entrance laws) are. In this paper, we show that aBMs arise as the interface model of the continuous-space voter model. This link allows us to provide a full classification of entrance laws for aBMs. We also give some examples showing how different entrance laws can be obtained via finite approximations. Further, we discuss the relation of the continuous-space voter model to the stepping stone and other related models. Finally, we obtain an expression for the n-point densities of aBMs starting from an arbitrary entrance law.

Keywords: Annihilating Brownian motions; Entrance laws; Voter model; Stepping stone model; Symbiotic branching; Moment duality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2021.01.002

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