On asymptotic behavior of the modified Arratia flow

Abstract

We study asymptotic properties of the system of interacting diffusion particles on the real line which transfer a mass [20]. The system is a natural generalization of the coalescing Brownian motions [3, 25]. The main difference is that diffusion particles coalesce summing their mass and changing their diffusion rate inversely proportional to the mass. First we construct the system in the case where the initial mass distribution has the moment of the order greater then two as an $L_2$-valued martingale with a suitable quadratic variation. Then we find the relationship between the asymptotic behavior of the particles and local properties of the mass distribution at the initial time.