Probability Seminar: The frog model on trees

Probability Seminar: The frog model on trees

Probability Seminar
Apr 22, 2015, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Matthew Junge, University of Washington
On a d-ary tree place some number (random or otherwise) of sleeping frogs at each site, as well as one awake frog at the root. Awake frogs perform simple random walk and wake any "sleepers" they encounter. A longstanding open problem: Does every frog wake up? It turns out this depends on d and the amount of frogs. The proof uses two different recursions and two different versions of stochastic...