A self-regulating and patch subdivided population

Details A self-regulating and patch subdivided population A self-regulating and patch subdivided population

2008-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/0811.1279v3

Adv.Appl.Probab. 42 n.3 (2010), 899-912

Mathematics

Probability

16 pages, fixed some minor misprints in the proof of Theorem 3.2

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We consider an interacting particle process on a graph which, from a macroscopic point of view, looks like $\Z^d$ and, at a microscopic level, is a complete graph of degree $N$ (called a patch). There are two birth rates: an inter-patch one $\lambda$ and an intra-patch one $\phi$. Once a site is occupied, there is no breeding from outside the patch and the probability $c(i)$ of success of an intra-patch breeding decreases with the size $i$ of the population in the site. We prove the existence of a critical value $\lambda_{cr}(\phi, c, N)$ and a critical value $\phi_{cr}(\lambda, c, N)$. We consider a sequence of processes generated by the families of control functions $\{c_i\}_{i \in \N}$ and degrees $\{N_i\}_{i \in \N}$; we prove, under mild assumptions, the existence of a critical value $i_{cr}$. Roughly speaking we show that, in the limit, these processes behave as the branching random walk on $\Z^d$ with external birth rate $\lambda$ and internal birth rate $\phi$. Some examples of models that can be seen as particular cases are given.

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