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A random walk with catastrophes
Iddo Ben-Ari1, Alexander Roitershtein2, Rinaldo B Schinazi3
1Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1009, USA.
Abstract:
Random population dynamics with catastrophes (events pertaining to possible elimination of a large portion of the population) has a long history in the mathematical literature. In this paper we study an ergodic model for random population dynamics with linear growth and binomial catastrophes: in a catastrophe, each individual survives with some fixed probability, independently of the rest. Through a coupling construction, we obtain sharp two-sided bounds for the rate of convergence to stationarity which are applied to show that the model exhibits a cutoff phenomenon.
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