On singular probability densities generated by extremal dynamics

Details On singular probability densities generated by extremal dynamics On singular probability densities generated by extremal dynamics

2003-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304288v2

Physica A 332, 318 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

16 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

Extremal dynamics is the mechanism that drives the Bak-Sneppen model into a (self-organized) critical state, marked by a singular stationary probability density $p(x)$. With the aim of understanding this phenomenon, we study the BS model and several variants via mean-field theory and simulation. In all cases, we find that $p(x)$ is singular at one or more points, as a consequence of extremal dynamics. Furthermore we show that the extremal barrier $x_i$ always belongs to the `prohibited' interval, in which $p(x)=0$. Our simulations indicate that the Bak-Sneppen universality class is robust with regard to changes in the updating rule: we find the same value for the exponent $\pi$ for all variants. Mean-field theory, which furnishes an exact description for the model on a complete graph, reproduces the character of the probability distribution found in simulations. For the modified processes mean-field theory takes the form of a functional equation for $p(x)$.

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