## The Annals of Probability

### A system of coalescing heavy diffusion particles on the real line

Vitalii Konarovskyi

#### Abstract

We construct a modified Arratia flow with mass and energy conservation. We suppose that particles have a mass obeying the conservation law, and their diffusion is inversely proportional to the mass. Our main result asserts that such a system exists under the assumption of the uniform mass distribution on an interval at the starting moment. We introduce a stochastic integral with respect to such a flow and obtain the total local time as the density of the occupation measure for all particles.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Probab., Volume 45, Number 5 (2017), 3293-3335.

Dates
Revised: July 2016
First available in Project Euclid: 23 September 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1506132039

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/16-AOP1137

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3706744

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06812206

#### Citation

Konarovskyi, Vitalii. A system of coalescing heavy diffusion particles on the real line. Ann. Probab. 45 (2017), no. 5, 3293--3335. doi:10.1214/16-AOP1137. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1506132039

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