Joint Applied Math and Probability Seminar
Winter Quarter 2004
3:15 p.m.
Sloan Mathematics Corner
Building 380, Room 380-C


Friday, May 21, 2004


Yevgeniy Kovchegov
UCLA

Exclusion Processes with Multiple Interactions


Abstract:

We introduce the mathematical theory of the particle systems that interact via permutations, where the transition rates are assigned not to the jumps from a site to a site, but to the permutations themselves. This permutation processes can be viewed as a generalization of the symmetric exclusion processes, where particles interact via transpositions. The duality and coupling techniques for the processes are described, the needed conditions for them to apply are established. The stationary distributions of the permutation processes are explored for translation invariant cases.

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