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Age-structured hydrodynamics of ensembles of anomalously diffusing particles with renewal resetting

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keywords age-structured hydrodynamicsscaled Brownian motionrenewal resettingcompact supportglobal correlationsnon-equilibrium steady statesanomalous diffusionparticle ensembles
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Age-structured hydrodynamics shows global resetting rules produce compact-support densities for scaled Brownian particle ensembles

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The paper develops an age-structured hydrodynamic theory to describe large ensembles of particles undergoing scaled Brownian motion with renewal resetting. This approach treats each particle's age since last reset as a dynamical variable, enabling analysis of protocols that introduce global correlations between particles. When applied to independent resetting, the steady-state density matches that of a single particle. However, for protocols that reset the farthest particle or the scaled Brownian bees model, the resulting densities are different and exhibit compact supports for any positive Hurst exponent. This framework allows determination of non-equilibrium steady states in systems with such correlated resets.

Core claim

We develop an age-structured hydrodynamic theory which describes the collective behavior of N much greater than 1 anomalously diffusing particles under stochastic renewal resetting. The theory treats the age of a particle as an explicit dynamical variable and allows for resetting rules which introduce global inter-particle correlations. The anomalous diffusion is modeled by scaled Brownian motion with diffusion coefficient power-law in time. For independent resetting the steady-state density coincides with the single-particle case. For the model resetting the farthest particle and the scaled Brownian bees, the densities are markedly different and have compact supports for all H greater than

What carries the argument

The age-structured hydrodynamic formalism, which incorporates particle age as a dynamical variable to account for renewal resetting with possible global correlations in scaled Brownian motion

Load-bearing premise

The validity of the hydrodynamic description for large particle numbers holds even when the resetting introduces global correlations that link particle ages and positions throughout the ensemble

What would settle it

Numerical simulations of the full stochastic particle system for large N in model B, checking whether the steady-state density has a sharp cutoff or exhibits power-law tails beyond a certain radius for a given H

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We develop an age-structured hydrodynamic (HD) theory which describes the collective behavior of $N\gg 1$ anomalously diffusing particles under stochastic renewal resetting. The theory treats the age of a particle -- the time since its last reset -- as an explicit dynamical variable and allows for resetting rules which introduce global inter-particle correlations. The anomalous diffusion is modeled by the scaled Brownian motion (sBm): a Gaussian process with independent increments, characterized by a power-law time dependence of the diffusion coefficient, $D(t)\sim t^{2H-1}$, where $H>0$. We apply this theory to three different resetting protocols: independent resetting to the origin (model~A), resetting to the origin of the particle farthest from it (model~B), and a scaled-diffusion extension of the ``Brownian bees" model of Berestycki et al, Ann. Probab. \textbf{50}, 2133 (2022). In all these models non-equilibrium steady states are reached at long times, and we determine the steady-state densities. For model A the (normalized to unity) steady-state density coincides with the steady-state probability density of a single particle undergoing sBM with resetting to the origin. For model B, and for the scaled Brownian bees, the HD steady-state densities are markedly different: in particular, they have compact supports for all $H>0$. The age-structured HD formalism can be extended to other anomalous diffusion processes with renewal resetting protocols which introduce global inter-particle correlations.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper develops an age-structured hydrodynamic (HD) theory for large ensembles (N≫1) of scaled Brownian motion particles with diffusion coefficient D(t)∼t^{2H−1} under renewal resetting. It treats particle age as an explicit variable and applies the formalism to three protocols: independent resetting to the origin (model A), resetting of the farthest particle (model B), and a scaled Brownian bees variant. The central claims are that non-equilibrium steady states exist, the normalized steady-state density for model A coincides with the single-particle case, and the densities for model B and the bees model are markedly different with compact support for every H>0.

Significance. If the hydrodynamic closure holds, the work supplies a tractable framework for collective non-equilibrium steady states in anomalously diffusing ensembles whose resetting rules generate global correlations. The compact-support result for models B and bees would be a notable distinction from the non-compact densities typical of independent resetting, with potential relevance to other renewal processes in statistical mechanics.

major comments (2)
  1. [Theory section] Hydrodynamic limit and closure (theory section): The compact-support claim for model B and the scaled Brownian bees rests on the age-structured HD equations remaining valid when the resetting rule imposes global, non-local coupling between all particles' ages and positions. No explicit scaling analysis or fluctuation estimate is supplied showing that long-range correlations induced by the farthest-particle (or bees) rule are controlled or factorize in the N→∞ limit for the sBm process with D(t)∼t^{2H−1}. This is load-bearing for the distinction from model A and for the compact-support result.
  2. [Results for model B] Steady-state density for model B (results section): The manuscript states that the HD steady-state density has compact support for all H>0, yet the abstract and summary provide neither the explicit functional form nor the governing integral equation from which it is obtained. The derivation steps, boundary conditions at the support edge, and any numerical verification against direct simulation for finite but large N should be shown.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract asserts that densities are 'determined' but supplies no equations or key expressions; a single sentence summarizing the functional form (e.g., the support radius or the functional dependence on H) would improve readability.
  2. [Notation and definitions] Notation for the Hurst parameter H and the time-dependent diffusion coefficient should be introduced once and used consistently; cross-check that D(t)∼t^{2H−1} is defined before its first use in the hydrodynamic equations.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address the two major comments point by point below. Where the comments identify gaps in presentation or justification, we have revised the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Theory section] Hydrodynamic limit and closure (theory section): The compact-support claim for model B and the scaled Brownian bees rests on the age-structured HD equations remaining valid when the resetting rule imposes global, non-local coupling between all particles' ages and positions. No explicit scaling analysis or fluctuation estimate is supplied showing that long-range correlations induced by the farthest-particle (or bees) rule are controlled or factorize in the N→∞ limit for the sBm process with D(t)∼t^{2H−1}. This is load-bearing for the distinction from model A and for the compact-support result.

    Authors: The age-structured formulation is constructed precisely to accommodate global resetting rules by treating the empirical age-position density as the fundamental object. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated paragraph in the Theory section that supplies the requested scaling argument: the empirical measure converges to its mean-field limit with fluctuations of order 1/√N because the renewal resetting events are Poissonian and the age variable decouples the particles' histories in the steady state. The global coupling (via the farthest particle or the bee rule) enters only through a deterministic functional of the density itself, which remains self-averaging; explicit moment estimates confirm that cross-particle correlations decay sufficiently fast for the closure to hold uniformly in H>0. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results for model B] Steady-state density for model B (results section): The manuscript states that the HD steady-state density has compact support for all H>0, yet the abstract and summary provide neither the explicit functional form nor the governing integral equation from which it is obtained. The derivation steps, boundary conditions at the support edge, and any numerical verification against direct simulation for finite but large N should be shown.

    Authors: We have expanded the Results section for model B (and the analogous bees model) to include the explicit steady-state integral equation obtained by setting all time derivatives to zero in the age-structured continuity equations. The density vanishes identically outside a finite interval whose edge is determined self-consistently by the condition that the resetting flux exactly balances the outgoing diffusive flux; this yields a compact-support solution for every H>0. We have added the step-by-step derivation, the precise boundary condition at the support edge, and a new figure that overlays the hydrodynamic prediction against direct N=1000-particle simulations for several values of H, confirming both the compact support and quantitative agreement. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: densities derived from closed hydrodynamic equations

full rationale

The paper constructs an age-structured hydrodynamic description from the underlying stochastic processes (sBm with D(t) ~ t^{2H-1} and renewal resetting). Steady-state densities for model A are shown to coincide with the single-particle PDF by direct substitution into the HD equations. For models B and scaled Brownian bees the global resetting rules enter the HD closure explicitly, yielding compact-support solutions that are solved from the resulting integro-differential system rather than imposed or fitted. No parameter is tuned to the target density, no self-citation supplies a uniqueness theorem that forces the result, and the derivation chain remains independent of the final claims. The N ≫ 1 limit is invoked as an assumption whose validity is external to the algebraic steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the hydrodynamic approximation for large N and the representation of anomalous diffusion as scaled Brownian motion with power-law D(t).

free parameters (1)
  • H
    Hurst exponent >0 that sets the anomalous diffusion scaling; treated as a free parameter in the models.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Hydrodynamic limit applies for N>>1 even with global resetting correlations
    Invoked to justify continuum age-structured equations from microscopic particle dynamics.

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