Nonlinear Sciences – Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
2008-07-28
Nonlinear Sciences
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Scientific paper
We study a mean-field model for a clustering process that may be described informally as follows. At each step a random integer $k$ is chosen with probability $p_k$, and the smallest cluster merges with $k$ randomly chosen clusters. We prove that the model determines a continuous dynamical system on the space of probability measures supported in $(0,\infty)$, and we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for approach to self-similar form. We also characterize eternal solutions for this model via a Levy-Khintchine formula. The analysis is based on an explicit solution formula discovered by Gallay and Mielke, extended using a careful choice of time scale.
Menon Govind
Niethammer Barbara
Pego Robert L.
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