Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: We study a system of reflected Brownian motions on the positive half-line in which each particle has a drift toward the origin determined by the local times at the origin of all the particles. If this local time drift is too strong, such systems exhibit a breakdown in their solutions in that there is a time beyond which the system cannot be extended. In the finite particle case, we give a complete characterisation of this finite time breakdown, relying on a novel dynamic graph structure. We consider the mean-field limit of the system in the symmetric setting, which admits a McKean–Vlasov representation, and establish propagation of chaos. In the absence of breakdowns, the McKean–Vlasov equation exhibits multiple stationary and unique self-similar solutions and we prove convergence to these profiles. This work is motivated by models for liquidity in financial markets, the supercooled Stefan problem, and a toy model for cell polarisation.
Source: The Annals of Probability
DOI: 10.1214/26-aop1845
Authors: Graeme Baker, Ben Hambly, Philipp Jettkant
Institutions: Columbia University, University of Oxford, Imperial College London
Language: English
Subfield: Finance
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4415101108
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