3 papers
math.PR2018
The Zealot Voter Model
Ran Huo, Rick Durrett
Inspired by the spread of discontent as in the 2016 presidential election, we consider a voter model in which 0's are ordinary voters and 1's are zealots. Thinking of a social netw…
math.PR2017
Asymptotic behavior of the Brownian frog model
Erin Beckman, Emily Dinan, Rick Durrett +2
We introduce an extension of the frog model to Euclidean space and prove properties for the spread of active particles. Fix and place a particle at each point of a unit i…
math.PR2016
Latent Voter Model on Locally Tree-Like Random Graphs
Ran Huo, Rick Durrett
In the latent voter model, which models the spread of a technology through a social network, individuals who have just changed their choice have a latent period, which is exponenti…