Mat-1.3656 Seminar on numerical analysis and computational science

Monday,Apr 18 , 2011, room U322 at 14.15, Eirola & Stenberg

Harri Varpanen,
Juggler's exclusion process

Juggler's exclusion process describes a system of particles on the positive integers, where the particles drift down to zero at unit speed, and after a particle hits zero, it is thrown into an randomly chosen unoccupied site. We show that such a process, when started with finitely many particles, is ergodic if the family of throw height distributions is uniformly integrable. Moreover, we discuss a special case of the process where the particles are thrown according to a maximum entropy principle. This special process, started with a finite number of particles, is shown to reach its steady state in finite deterministic time. This is joint work with Lasse Leskelä.