On collisions of Brownian particles
Combinatorial Stochastic Processes Seminar
Oct 21, 2011, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 740 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Mykhaylo Shkolnikov, UC Berkeley (Speaker)
We consider systems of Brownian particles on the real line, whose drift and diffusion coefficients are assigned according to their ranks. That is, whenever particles meet (collide), their coefficients are exchanged. We will ask the following questions: When is a collision of three or more particles possible with positive probability? If so, how often do such collisions occur? This problem is...