Lorenzo Vito Dal Zovo
Non-equilibrium unidimensional traffic model with pausing particles: a biological-motivated extension of the exclusion process.
Rel. Luigi Preziosi. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Mathematical Engineering, 2024
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Abstract
This master thesis examines nonequilibrium, one-dimensional traffic phenomena modeled as lattice gas systems, where particles move on a discrete lattice. Movement follows a continuous time Poisson process. The focus is on the Totally Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process (TASEP), where particles hop in one direction only if the landing site is empty, and a derived model, pausing-TASEP (pTASEP), where particles can stochastically pause and resume motion. The work is divided into two parts: approximate mean-field theories and exact combinatorial results. The thesis first explores pTASEP as a model for translationally-inhibited protein synthesis, where ribosomes on mRNA (the lattice) face pauses due to antibiotics.
Unlike TASEP, pTASEP lacks exact solutions for key observables, with existing literature offering limited mean-field theories in restrictive geometries
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