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The annihilating process
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2016
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An annihilating process is an interacting particle system in which the only interaction is that a particle may kill a neighbouring particle. Since there is no birth and no movement, once a particle has no neighbours its site remains occupied for ever. It is shown that with initial configuration ℤ the distribution of particles at all times is a renewal process and that the probability that a site remains occupied for all time tends to 1/e. Time-dependent behaviour is also calculated for the tree 𝕋r.
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