A system of grabbing particles related to Galton-Watson trees
Abstract
We consider a system of particles with arms that are activated randomly to grab other particles as a toy model for polymerization. We assume that the following two rules are fulfilled: Once a particle has been grabbed then it cannot be grabbed again, and an arm cannot grab a particle that belongs to its own cluster. We are interested in the shape of a typical polymer in the situation when the initial number of monomers is large and the numbers of arms of monomers are given by i.i.d. random variables. Our main result is a limit theorem for the empirical distribution of polymers, where limit is expressed in terms of a Galton-Watson tree.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2008
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0804.0726
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0804.0726
- Bibcode:
- 2008arXiv0804.0726B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Probability