Large population limits of Markov processes on random networks
- We consider time-continuous Markovian discrete-state dynamics on random networks of interacting agents and study the large population limit. The dynamics are projected onto low-dimensional collective variables given by the shares of each discrete state in the system, or in certain subsystems, and general conditions for the convergence of the collective variable dynamics to a mean-field ordinary differential equation are proved. We discuss the convergence to this mean-field limit for a continuous-time noisy version of the so-called "voter model" on Erdős-Rényi random graphs, on the stochastic block model, as well as on random regular graphs. Moreover, a heterogeneous population of agents is studied. For each of these types of interaction networks, we specify the convergence conditions in dependency on the corresponding model parameters.
Author: | Marvin Lücke, Jobst Heitzig, Péter Koltai, Nora Molkethin, Stefanie Winkelmann |
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Document Type: | Article |
Parent Title (English): | Stochastic Processes and their Applications |
Volume: | 166 |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/09/30 |
ArXiv Id: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02934 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spa.2023.09.007 |