We consider Markov chains on the space of (countable) partitions of the interval $[0,1]$, obtained first by size biased sampling twice (allowing repetitions) and then merging the parts with probability $\beta_m$ (if the sampled parts are distinct) or splitting the…

We consider a class of interacting particle systems with values in $[0,∞)^{\mathbb{Z}^d}$, of which the binary contact path process is an example. For $d \geq 3$ and under a certain square integrability condition on the total number of the particles,…

We discuss various aspects concerning stochastic domination for the Ising model and the fuzzy Potts model. We begin by considering the Ising model on the homogeneous tree of degree $d$, $\mathbb{T}^d$. For given interaction parameters $J_1$, $J_2>0$ and external field…

We consider a two-type contact process on the integers. Both types have equal finite range and supercritical infection rate. We show that a given type becomes extinct with probability 1 if and only if, in the initial configuration, it is…

Self-interacting diffusions are processes living on a compact Riemannian manifold defined by a stochastic differential equation with a drift term depending on the past empirical measure of the process. The asymptotics of this measure is governed by a deterministic dynamical…

Let $S_{n,k}$ denote the random geometric graph obtained by placing points inside a square of area $n$ according to a Poisson point process of intensity $1$ and joining each such point to the $k=k(n)$ points of the process nearest to…

We consider the directed first passage percolation model on $\mathbb{Z}^2$. In this model, we assign independently to each edge $e$ a passage time $t(e)$ with a common distribution $F$. We denote by $\vec{T}(0,(r,\theta))$ the passage time from the origin to…