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The role of disorder in the dynamics of critical fluctuations of mean field models
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the disorder affects the dynamics
of critical fluctuations for two different types of interacting particle
system: the Curie-Weiss and Kuramoto model. The models under consideration are
a collection of spins and rotators respectively. They both are subject to a
mean field interaction and embedded in a site-dependent, i.i.d. random
environment. As the number of particles goes to infinity their limiting
dynamics become deterministic and exhibit phase transition. The main result
concern the fluctuations around this deterministic limit at the critical point
in the thermodynamic limit. From a qualitative point of view, it indicates that
when disorder is added spin and rotator systems belong to two different classes
of universality, which is not the case for the homogeneous models (i.e.,
without disorder).Comment: 41 page
Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality for Zero-Range Dynamics: independence of the number of particles
We prove that the logarithmic-Sobolev constant for Zero-Range Processes in a
box of diameter L may depend on L but not on the number of particles. This is a
first, but relevant and quite technical step, in the proof that this
logarithmic-Sobolev constant grows as L^2, that will be presented in a
forthcoming paper
Logarithmic Sobolev inequality for zero-range Dynamics
We prove that the logarithmic Sobolev constant for zero-range processes in a
box of diameter grows as .Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117905000000332 in the
Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Hitting times for special patterns in the symmetric exclusion process on Z^d
We consider the symmetric exclusion process {\eta_t,t>0} on {0,1}^{Z^d}. We
fix a pattern A:={\eta:\sum_{\Lambda}\eta(i)\ge k}, where \Lambda is a finite
subset of Z^d and k is an integer, and we consider the problem of establishing
sharp estimates for \tau, the hitting time of A. We present a novel argument
based on monotonicity which helps in some cases to obtain sharp tail
asymptotics for \tau in a simple way. Also, we characterize the trajectories
{\eta_s,s\le t} conditioned on {\tau>t}.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000487 in the
Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Multi-scaling of moments in stochastic volatility models
We introduce a class of stochastic volatility models for
which the absolute moments of the increments exhibit anomalous scaling:
\E\left(|X_{t+h} - X_t|^q \right) scales as for , but as
with , for some threshold . This
multi-scaling phenomenon is observed in time series of financial assets. If the
dynamics of the volatility is given by a mean-reverting equation driven by a
Levy subordinator and the characteristic measure of the Levy process has power
law tails, then multi-scaling occurs if and only if the mean reversion is
superlinear
The dynamics of critical fluctuations in asymmetric Curie-Weiss models
We study the dynamics of fluctuations at the critical point for two
time-asymmetric version of the Curie-Weiss model for spin systems that, in the
macroscopic limit, undergo a Hopf bifurcation. The fluctuations around the
macroscopic limit reflect the type of bifurcation, as they exhibit observables
whose fluctuations evolve at different time scales. The limiting dynamics of
fluctuations of slow observable is obtained via an averaging principle.Comment: 27 page
Consumption of wood biomass in Italy: a strategic role based on a weak knowledge
Given the growing role of wood biomass as a strategic resource in the European and national renewable energy policies, the paper provides two new estimations of the internal consumption and supply levels, aiming at discussing the real role of this resource in the national energy mix and the implications of this market in terms of forest policies. The first estimation focuses on household consumption and expenditure based on the ISTAT \u201cSurvey on consumption by families\u201d, and the second analyzes how the wood biomass supply is structured and organized; this second estimation has been carried out with an expert panel consultation based on a Delphi-based approach. These two estimations are then compared and discussed with reference to the data and information provided by official sources and other publically-available studies and surveys conducted in recent years. The results provide evidence that wood biomass is the first source of renewable energy in Italy and that official data only partially quantify the consumption levels in the residential sector and domestic supply rates. The paper highlights the need for a new approach in data collection on this fast-growing market; these data are essential for a more effective implementation of the renewable energy policy and other relevant forest-related policies such as those on climate and wood mobilization
Meyniel's conjecture holds for random graphs
In the game of cops and robber, the cops try to capture a robber moving on
the vertices of the graph. The minimum number of cops required to win on a
given graph is called the cop number of . The biggest open conjecture in
this area is the one of Meyniel, which asserts that for some absolute constant
, the cop number of every connected graph is at most .
In this paper, we show that Meyniel's conjecture holds asymptotically almost
surely for the binomial random graph. We do this by first showing that the
conjecture holds for a general class of graphs with some specific
expansion-type properties. This will also be used in a separate paper on random
-regular graphs, where we show that the conjecture holds asymptotically
almost surely when .Comment: revised versio
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