Localisation and Selection for a Mean Field Branching Random Walk in Random Environment

Greven A, Fleischmann K (1992)


Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 1992

Journal

Publisher: Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)

Book Volume: 20

Pages Range: 2141-2163

Journal Issue: 4

URI: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1176989543

DOI: 10.1214/aop/1176989543

Abstract

We consider a continuous time branching random walk on the finite set {1,2,…,N}" role="presentation">{1,2,…,N} with totally symmetric diffusion jumps and some site-dependent i.i.d. random birth rates which are unbounded. We study this process as the time t" role="presentation">t and the space size N" role="presentation">N tend to infinity simultaneously. In the classical law of large numbers setup for spatial branching models, the growth of the population obeys an exponential limit law due to the localization of the overwhelming portion of particles in the record point of the medium. This phenomenon is analyzed further: The historical path (in space) of a typical particle picked at time t" role="presentation">t (selection) is of a rather simple and special nature and becomes in the limit singular (in distribution) to the path of the underlying mean field random walk. In general, the properties of the typical path depend on the relation in which t" role="presentation">t and N" role="presentation">N tend to infinity.

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APA:

Greven, A., & Fleischmann, K. (1992). Localisation and Selection for a Mean Field Branching Random Walk in Random Environment. Annals of Probability, 20(4), 2141-2163. https://dx.doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176989543

MLA:

Greven, Andreas, and Klaus Fleischmann. "Localisation and Selection for a Mean Field Branching Random Walk in Random Environment." Annals of Probability 20.4 (1992): 2141-2163.

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