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Stochastic fragmentation and some sufficient conditions for shattering transition. (English) Zbl 1002.60097
Summary: We investigate the fragmentation process developed by Kolmogorov and Filippov, which has been studied extensively by many physicists (independently for some time). One of the most interesting phenomena is the shattering (or disintegration of mass) transition which is considered a counterpart of the well known gelation phenomenon in the coagulation process. Though no masses are subtracted from the system during the break-up process, the total mass decreases in finite time. The occurrence of shattering transition is explained as due to the decomposition of the mass into an infinite number of particles of zero mass. It is known only that shattering phenomena occur for some special types of break-up rates. By considering the $$n$$-particle system of stochastic fragmentation processes, we find general conditions of the rates which guarantee the occurrence of the shattering transition.

##### MSC:
 60K35 Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory 82C22 Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics
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