Suppose that $𝒢$ is a finite, connected graph and $X$ is a lazy random walk on $𝒢$. The lamplighter chain $X^{\diamond }$ associated with $X$ is the random walk on the wreath product ${𝒢}^{\diamond }={𝐙}_2\wr 𝒢$, the graph whose vertices consist of pairs $(\underline{f},x)$ where $f$ is a labeling of the vertices of $𝒢$ by elements of ${𝐙}_2=\{0,1\}$ and $x$ is a vertex in $𝒢$. There is an edge between $(\underline{f},x)$ and $(\underline{g},y)$ in ${𝒢}^{\diamond }$ if and only if $x$ is adjacent to $y$ in $𝒢$ and $f_z=g_z$ for all $z\ne x,y$. In each step, $X^{\diamond }$ moves from a configuration $(\underline{f},x)$ by updating $x$ to $y$ using the transition rule of $X$ and then...

For $X,Y\in {𝐌}_{n,m}$ it is said that $X$ is gut-majorized by $Y$, and we write $X{\prec }_{\mathrm{gut}}Y$, if there exists an $n$-by-$n$ upper triangular g-row stochastic matrix $R$ such that $X=RY$. Define the relation ${\sim }_{\mathrm{gut}}$ as follows. $X{\sim }_{\mathrm{gut}}Y$ if $X$ is gut-majorized by $Y$ and $Y$ is gut-majorized by $X$. The (strong) linear preservers of ${\prec }_{\mathrm{gut}}$ on ${ℝ}^n$ and strong linear preservers of this relation on ${𝐌}_{n,m}$ have been characterized before. This paper characterizes all (strong) linear preservers and strong linear preservers of ${\sim }_{\mathrm{gut}}$ on ${ℝ}^n$ and ${𝐌}_{n,m}$.

In this paper, we consider the linear and circular consecutive $k$-out-of-$n$ systems consisting of arbitrarily dependent components. Under the condition that at least $n-r+1$ components ($r\le n$) of the system are working at time $t$, we study the reliability properties of the residual lifetime of such systems. Also, we present some stochastic ordering properties of residual lifetime of consecutive $k$-out-of-$n$ systems. In the following, we investigate the inactivity time of the component with lifetime...

In this paper, we study the size of the giant component $C_G$ in the random geometric graph $G=G(n,r_n,f)$ of $n$ nodes independently distributed each according to a certain density $f(·)$ in ${[0,1]}^2$ satisfying ${inf}_{x\in {[0,1]}^2}f\left(x\right)gt;$ $0$. If $\frac{c_1}{n}\le r_n^2\le c_2\frac{logn}{n}$ for some positive constants $c_1$, $c_2$ and $n{r}_n^2⟶\infty$ as $n\to \infty$, we show that the giant component of $G$ contains at least $n-\mathrm{o}\left(n\right)$ nodes with probability at least $1-{\mathrm{e}}^{-\beta n{r}_n^2}$ for all $n$ and for some positive constant $\beta$. We also obtain estimates on the diameter and number of the non-giant components of $G$.

We study a continuous time growth process on the $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice ${𝒵}^d$, which admits a phenomenological interpretation as the combustion reaction $A+B\to 2A$, where $A$ represents heat particles and $B$ inert particles. This process can be described as an interacting particle system in the following way: at time 0 a simple symmetric continuous time random walk of total jump rate one begins to move from the origin of the hypercubic lattice; then, as soon as any random walk visits a site...

Given a coarse space $(X,ℰ)$ with the bornology $ℬ$ of bounded subsets, we extend the coarse structure $ℰ$ from $X\times X$ to the natural coarse structure on $(ℬ\setminus \{\varnothing \left\}\right)\times (ℬ\setminus \{\varnothing \left\}\right)$ and say that a macro-uniform mapping $f:(ℬ\setminus \{\varnothing \left\}\right)\to X$ (or $f:{\left[X\right]}^2\to X$) is a selector (or 2-selector) of $(X,ℰ)$ if $f\left(A\right)\in A$ for each $A\in ℬ\setminus \left\{\varnothing \right\}$ ($A\in {\left[X\right]}^2$, respectively). We prove that a discrete coarse space $(X,ℰ)$ admits a selector if and only if $(X,ℰ)$ admits a 2-selector if and only if there exists a linear order “$\le$" on $X$ such that the family of intervals $\left\{\right[a,b]:a,b\in X,a\le b\}$ is a base for the bornology $ℬ$.

Let $X$ be a $\mu$-symmetric Hunt process on a LCCB space $𝙴$. For an open set $𝙶\subseteq 𝙴$, let ${\tau }_{𝙶}$ be the exit time of $X$ from $𝙶$ and $A^{𝙶}$ be the generator of the process killed when it leaves $𝙶$. Let $r:[0,\infty [\to [0,\infty [$ and $R\left(t\right)={\int }_0^{t}r\left(s\right)\mathrm{d}s$. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for ${𝔼}_{\mu }R\left({\tau }_{𝙶}\right)lt;\infty$ in terms of the behavior near the origin of the spectral measure of $-A^{𝙶}$. When $r\left(t\right)=t^l$, $l\ge 0$, by means of this condition we derive the Nash inequality for the killed process. In the diffusion case this permits to show that the existence of moments of order $l+1$ for ${\tau }_{𝙶}$...

We consider random walk on a discrete torus $E$ of side-length $N$, in sufficiently high dimension $d$. We investigate the percolative properties of the vacant set corresponding to the collection of sites which have not been visited by the walk up to time $u{N}^d$. We show that when $u$ is chosen small, as $N$ tends to infinity, there is with overwhelming probability a unique connected component in the vacant set which contains segments of length const $logN$. Moreover, this connected component occupies a...

Let $D$ be a ${𝒞}^d$ $q$-convex intersection, $d\ge 2$, $0\le q\le n-1$, in a complex manifold $X$ of complex dimension $n$, $n\ge 2$, and let $E$ be a holomorphic vector bundle of rank $N$ over $X$. In this paper, ${𝒞}^k$-estimates, $k=2,3,\cdots ,\infty$, for solutions to the $\overline{\partial }$-equation with small loss of smoothness are obtained for $E$-valued $(0,s)$-forms on $D$ when $n-q\le s\le n$. In addition, we solve the $\overline{\partial }$-equation with a support condition in ${𝒞}^k$-spaces. More precisely, we prove that for a $\overline{\partial }$-closed form $f$ in ${𝒞}_{0,q}^k(X\setminus D,E)$, $1\le q\le n-2$, $n\ge 3$, with compact support and for $\epsilon$ with $0<\epsilon <1$ there...

For each n ≥ 1, let $v_{n,k},k\ge 1$ and $u_{n,k},k\ge 1$ be mutually independent sequences of nonnegative random variables and let each of them consist of mutually independent and identically distributed random variables with means v̅ₙ and u̅̅ₙ, respectively. Let $X{ₙ}^B\left(t\right)=(1/cₙ){\sum }_{j=1}^{\left[nt\right]}(v_{n,j}-v̅ₙ)$, $X{ₙ}^A\left(t\right)=(1/cₙ){\sum }_{j=1}^{\left[nt\right]}(u_{n,j}-u̅̅ₙ)$, t ≥ 0, and $Xₙ=X{ₙ}^B-X{ₙ}^A$. The main result gives conditions under which the weak convergence $Xₙ\stackrel{}{\to }X$, where X is a Lévy process, implies $X{ₙ}^B\stackrel{}{\to }{X}^B$ and $X{ₙ}^A\stackrel{}{\to }{X}^A$, where $X^B$ and $X^A$ are mutually independent Lévy processes and $X=X^B-X^A$.

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