Conjecture on finite-population traveling waves and propagation speed
Let be a compactly supported initial distribution, let denote the position of the particle of rank , and let be the population distribution in the moving frame. Write
Finite-population traveling-wave conjecture. There exists a propagation speed such that, in an appropriate convergence sense, ; for every compact subset , converges in law on to a stationary distribution ; and .
These assertions formalize the numerically observed linear spreading, local convergence to a stationary traveling-wave profile in the moving frame, and convergence of the finite-population speed to the deterministic speed. The source presents them as open problems, and the precise meaning of the convergence in the first assertion remains unspecified.
References
Primary source
Mete Demircigil and Milica Tomasevic, “Convergence and Wave Propagation for a System of Branching Rank-Based Interacting Brownian Particles”, arXiv:2505.08563 (2025).
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