Vicious walks with long-range interactions

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Jul;82(1 Pt 1):011126. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.011126. Epub 2010 Jul 19.

Abstract

The asymptotic behavior of the survival or reunion probability of vicious walks with short-range interactions is generally well studied. In many realistic processes, however, walks interact with a long-ranged potential that decays in d dimensions with distance r as r(-d-σ). We employ methods of renormalized field theory to study the effect of such long-range interactions. We calculate the exponents describing the decay of the survival probability for all values of parameters σ and d to first order in the double expansion in ε=2-d and δ=2-d-σ. We show that there are several regions in the σ-d plane corresponding to different scalings for survival and reunion probabilities. Furthermore, we calculate the leading logarithmic corrections.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Physiological / physiology
  • Animals
  • Biological Clocks / physiology*
  • Competitive Behavior / physiology*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Ecosystem*
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Population Dynamics*
  • Predatory Behavior / physiology*