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2023 Hydrodynamic and hydrostatic limit for a generalized contact process with mixed boundary conditions
Mustapha Mourragui, Ellen Saada, Sonia Velasco
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Electron. J. Probab. 28: 1-44 (2023). DOI: 10.1214/23-EJP1025

Abstract

We consider an interacting particle system which models the sterile insect technique. It is the superposition of a generalized contact process with exchanges of particles on a finite cylinder with open boundaries (see Kuoch et al., 2017). We first show that when the system is in contact with reservoirs at different slow-down rates, the hydrodynamic limit is a set of coupled non linear reaction-diffusion equations with mixed boundary conditions. We then prove the hydrostatic limit when the macroscopic equations exhibit a unique attractor.

Acknowledgments

We thank the anonymous referees for their careful reading of the paper and comments which allowed to notably improve it. The authors would also like to thank Frank Redig for an interesting discussion as well as Camille Pouchol for some useful advice regarding numerical simulations. This work has been conducted within the FP2M federation (CNRS FR 2036).

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Mustapha Mourragui. Ellen Saada. Sonia Velasco. "Hydrodynamic and hydrostatic limit for a generalized contact process with mixed boundary conditions." Electron. J. Probab. 28 1 - 44, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1214/23-EJP1025

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Received: 15 December 2022; Accepted: 19 September 2023; Published: 2023
First available in Project Euclid: 21 November 2023

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/23-EJP1025

Subjects:
Primary: 60K35 , 82C22

Keywords: generalized contact process , Hydrodynamic limit , hydrostatic limit , mixed boundary conditions , random reservoirs , stirring process , system of reaction-diffusion equations

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