Aggregation in a one-dimensional stochastic gas model with finite polynomial moments of particle speeds

We consider a one-dimensional system of auto-gravitating sticky particles with random initial speeds and describe the process of aggregation in terms of the largest cluster size L_n at any fixed time prior to the critical time. We study the asymptotic behavior of L_n for the warm gas, i.e., for a system of particles with nonzero initial speeds v_i(0) = u_i, where (u_i) is a family of i.i.d. random variables with mean zero, unit variance, and finite pth moment E(|u_i|^p) < ∞, p ≥ 2, and obtain sharp lower and upper bounds for L_n(t). Bibliography: 17 titles. __________ Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 351, 2007, pp. 158–179.