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Publications [#335538] of Matthew S Junge

Papers Published

  1. Johnson, T; Junge, M, Stochastic orders and the frog model, Annales De L'Institut Henri Poincaré, Probabilités Et Statistiques, vol. 54 no. 2 (May, 2018), pp. 1013-1030, Institute of Mathematical Statistics [doi]
    (last updated on 2019/08/07)

    Abstract:
    © Association des Publications de l’Institut Henri Poincaré, 2018. The frog model starts with one active particle at the root of a graph and some number of dormant particles at all nonroot vertices. Active particles follow independent random paths, waking all inactive particles they encounter. We prove that certain frog model statistics are monotone in the initial configuration for two nonstandard stochastic dominance relations: the increasing concave and the probability generating function orders. This extends many canonical theorems. We connect recurrence for random initial configurations to recurrence for deterministic configurations. Also, the limiting shape of activated sites on the integer lattice respects both of these orders. Other implications include monotonicity results on transience of the frog model where the number of frogs per vertex decays away from the origin, on survival of the frog model with death, and on the time to visit a given vertex in any frog model.

 

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