Forest fires on $\Z_+$ with ignition only at 0

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2009-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1821v2

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We consider a version of the forest fire model on graph $G$, where each vertex of a graph becomes occupied with rate one. A fixed vertex $v_0$ is hit by lightning with the same rate, and when this occurs, the whole cluster of occupied vertices containing $v_0$ is burnt out. We show that when $G=Z_{+}$, the times between consecutive burnouts at vertex $n$, divided by $\log n$, converge weakly as $n\to\infty$ to a random variable which distribution is $1-\rho(x)$ where $\rho(x)$ is the Dickman function. We also show that on transitive graphs with a non-trivial site percolation threshold and one infinite cluster at most, the distributions of the time till the first burnout of {\it any} vertex have exponential tails. Finally, we give an elementary proof of an interesting limit: $\lim_{n\to\infty} \sum_{k=1}^n {n \choose k} (-1)^k \log k -\log\log n=\gamma$.

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