کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
975976 933067 2013 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The shadow principle: An optimal survival strategy for a prey chased by random predators
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات فیزیک ریاضی
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The shadow principle: An optimal survival strategy for a prey chased by random predators
چکیده انگلیسی


• We model a prey chased by independent predators uniformly distributed on a lattice.
• The prey optimizes its survival probability if it follows the “shadow” of the predators.
• This optimal trajectory mimics the preferred trajectory of the predators.

We consider a lattice model of the annihilation process A+B→B, when a mobile prey A is chased by identical, independent predators B performing random motions until one of them finds A and destroys it. It is assumed that each predator follows some “most probable” trajectory around which it performs a random motion. It is shown that, if the random motion of the predators satisfies certain conditions, the prey A can maximize its survival probability by following a specific trajectory which mimics the preferred trajectories of the predators: we call this optimal trajectory as the “shadow” of the predator. This is an extension of the so-called “Pascal Principle”, studied in the recent literature. We discuss the conditions which allow for such extensions, and give examples where they are realized.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications - Volume 392, Issue 13, 1 July 2013, Pages 2837–2846
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