Kinetic Behavior of Exchange-Driven Growth with Catalyzed-Birth Processes

Two catalyzed-birth models of n-species （n ≥ 2） aggregates with exchange-driven growth processes are proposed and compared. In the first one, the exchange reaction occurs between any two aggregates Ak^m and Af^m of the same species with the rate kernels Km（k,j）= Kmkj （m = 1, 2,... ,n, n ≥ 2）, and aggregates of A^n species catalyze a monomer-birth of A^l species （l = 1, 2 , n - 1） with the catalysis rate kernel Jl（k,j） -Jlkj^v. The kinetic behaviors are investigated by means of the mean-field theory. We find that the evolution behavior of aggregate-size distribution ak^l（t） of A^l species depends crucially on the value of the catalysis rate parameter v： （i） ak^l（t） obeys the conventional scaling law in the case of v ≤ 0, （ii） ak^l（t） satisfies a modified scaling form in the case of v 〉 0. In the second model, the mechanism of monomer-birth of An-species catalyzed by A^l species is added on the basis of the first model, that is, the aggregates of A^l and A^n species catalyze each other to cause monomer-birth. The kinetic behaviors of A^l and A^n species are found to fall into two categories for the different v： （i） growth obeying conventional scaling form with v ≤ 0, （ii） gelling at finite time with v 〉 0.

Kinetic Behaviors of Catalysis-Driven Growth of Three-Species Aggregates on Base of Exchange-Driven Aggregations

We propose a solvable aggregation model to mimic the evolution of population A, asset B, and the quantifiable resource C in a society. In this system, the population and asset aggregates themselves grow through selfexchanges with the rate kernels Kl（k,j） = K1kj and K2（h,j） = K2kj, respectively. The actions of the population and asset aggregations on the aggregation evolution of resource aggregates are described by the population-catalyzed monomer death of resource aggregates and asset-catalyzed monomer birth of resource aggregates with the rate kerne/s J1（k,j）=J1k and J2（k,j） = J2k, respectively. Meanwhile, the asset and resource aggregates conjunctly catalyze the monomer birth of population aggregates with the rate kernel I1 （k,i,j） = I1ki^μjη, and population and resource aggregates conjunctly catalyze the monomer birth of asset aggregates with the rate kernel /2（k, i, j） = I2ki^νj^η. The kinetic behaviors of species A, B, and C are investigated by means of the mean-field rate equation approach. The effects of the population-catalyzed death and asset-catalyzed birth on the evolution of resource aggregates based on the self-exchanges of population and asset appear in effective forms. The coefficients of the effective population-catalyzed death and the asset-catalyzed birth are expressed as J1e = J1/K1 and J2e= J2/K2, respectively. The aggregate size distribution of C species is found to be crucially dominated by the competition between the effective death and the effective birth. It satisfies the conventional scaling form, generalized scaling form, and modified scaling form in the cases of J1e〈J2e, J1e=J2e, and J1e〉J2e, respectively. Meanwhile, we also find the aggregate size distributions of populations and assets both fall into two distinct categories for different parameters μ,ν, and η： （i） When μ=ν=η=0 and μ=ν=η=1, the population and asset aggregates obey the generalized scaling forms; and （ii） When μ=ν=1,η=0, and μ=ν=η=1, the population and asset aggregates experience gelation transitions at finite times and the scaling forms break down.

Exchange-Driven Growth with Birth Rate Less Than Death

We further study the kinetic behavior of the exchange-driven growth withbirth and death for the case of birth rate kernel being less than that of death based on themean-Geld theory. The symmetric exchange rate kernel is K(k,j) = K′(k,j) = Ikj~v, and the birth anddeath rates are proportional to the aggregate's size. The long time asymptotic behavior of theaggregate size distribution a_k(t) is found to obey a much unusual scaling law with an exponentiallygrowing scaling function Φ(x) = exp(x).

Solvable Catalyzed Birth-Death-Exchange Competition Model of Three Species

A competition model of three species in exchange-driven aggregation growth is proposed. In the model, three distinct aggregates grow by exchange of monomers and in parallel, birth of species A is catalyzed by species B and death of species A is catalyzed by species C. The rates for both catalysis processes are proportional to kj^v and ky respectively, where ν（ω） is a parameter reflecting the dependence of the catalysis reaction rate of birth （death） on the catalyst aggregate＇s size. The kinetic evolution behaviors of the three species are investigated by the rate equation approach based on the mean-field theory： The form of the aggregate size distribution of A-species αk（t） is found to be dependent crucially on the two catalysis rate kernel parameters. The results show that （i） in case of ν ≤O, the form of ak （t） mainly depends on the competition between self-exchange of species A and species-C-catalyzed death of species A; （ii） in case of ν 〉 0, the form of αk（t） mainly depends on the competition between species-B-catalyzed birth of species A and species-C-catalyzed death of species A.