Randomly evolving trees I

Details Randomly evolving trees I Randomly evolving trees I

2002-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0205650v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

31 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

By introducing the notions of living and dead nodes a new model of random tree evolution with continuous time parameter has been constructed. It is assumed that two random variables, the lifetime and the offspring number of living nodes control the evolution process. It has been shown that the generating function of the probability to find the evolving tree in a given state satisfies a non-linear integral equation. Analyzing the time dependence of the average number of living nodes three different types of evolution (subcritical, critical and supercritical) can be observed. It has been proved that in the case of subcritical evolution there is a well-defined time point at which the variance of the number of living nodes has a maximum. The joint distribution function of the numbers of living and dead nodes has been derived, and the time dependence of the correlation between these node numbers has been calculated. It is found that in the critical evolution with increasing time the correlation converges to a fixed number which is independent of the distributions of the lifetime and the offspring number of living nodes.

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