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Probability Seminar

Title: Diffusion-Limited Annihilating Systems
Speaker: Matt Junge
Speaker Info: Duke University
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We study a two-type annihilating system in which particles are placed with equal density on the integer lattice. Particles perform simple random walk and annihilate when they contact a particle of different type. The occupation probability of the origin was known to exhibit anomalous behavior in low-dimension when particles have equal speeds. Describing the setting with asymmetric speeds has been open for over 20 years. We prove a lower bound that matches physicists' conjectures and discuss partial progress towards an upper bound. Joint with Michael Damron, Hanbaek Lyu, Tobias Johnson, and David Sivakoff.
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Time: 4:00PM
Where: Lunt 105
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