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THE AVALANCHE DYNAMICS IN RANDOM NEAREST NEIGHBOR MODELS OF EVOLUTION WITH INTERACTION STRENGTH

  • Jia Wu ,
  • Fan Wentao
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  • Institute of Systems Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

Received date: 2004-07-06

  Revised date: 2005-07-20

  Online published: 2006-01-20

Abstract

A generalized Bak-Sneppen model (BS model) of biological evolution with
interaction strength $\theta$ is introduced in d-dimensional space, where the "nearest neighbors" are chosen among the 2d neighbors of the extremal site, with the probabilities related to the sizes of the fitnesses. Simulations of one- and two-dimensional models are given. For given $\theta>0$, the model
can self-organize to a critical state, and the critical threshold fc(\theta)$ decreases as $\theta$ increases. The exact gap equation depending on $\theta$ is presented, which reduces to the gap equation of BS model as $\theta$ tends to infinity. An exact equation for the critical exponent $\gamma(\theta)$ is also obtained. Scaling relations are established among the six critical exponents of the avalanches of the model.

Cite this article

Jia Wu , Fan Wentao . THE AVALANCHE DYNAMICS IN RANDOM NEAREST NEIGHBOR MODELS OF EVOLUTION WITH INTERACTION STRENGTH[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2006 , 26(1) : 179 -187 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(06)60039-8

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