Parabolic Harnack inequality and local limit theorem for percolation clusters.
We consider the hexagonal circle packing with radius and perturb it by letting the circles move as independent Brownian motions for time . It is shown that, for large enough , if is the point process given by the center of the circles at time , then, as , the critical radius for circles centered at to contain an infinite component converges to that of continuum percolation (which was shown – based on a Monte Carlo estimate – by Balister, Bollobás and Walters to be strictly bigger than...
We present models of the dynamics of phytoplankton aggregates. We start with an individual-based model in which aggregates can grow, divide, joint and move randomly. Passing to infinity with the number of individuals, we obtain a model which describes the space-size distribution of aggregates. The density distribution function satisfies a non-linear transport equation, which contains terms responsible for the growth of phytoplankton aggregates, their fragmentation, coagulation, and diffusion.
We introduce potential spaces on fractal metric spaces, investigate their embedding theorems, and derive various Besov spaces. Our starting point is that there exists a local, stochastically complete heat kernel satisfying a two-sided estimate on the fractal considered.