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August 2016 Maximal displacement of critical branching symmetric stable processes
Steven P. Lalley, Yuan Shao
Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 52(3): 1161-1177 (August 2016). DOI: 10.1214/15-AIHP677

Abstract

We consider a critical continuous-time branching process (a Yule process) in which the individuals independently execute symmetric $\alpha$-stable random motions on the real line starting at their birth points. Because the branching process is critical, it will eventually die out, and so there is a well-defined maximal location $M$ ever visited by an individual particle of the process. We prove that the distribution of $M$ satisfies the asymptotic relation $P\{M\geq x\}\sim(2/\alpha)^{1/2}x^{-\alpha/2}$ as $x\rightarrow\infty$.

Nous considérons un processus de branchement en temps continu critique (processus de Yule) dont les individus suivent indépendamment un processus $\alpha$-stable symétrique réel issu de leur point de naissance. Le processus de branchement étant critique, il s’éteint presque surement et nous pouvons définir la valeur $M$ qui représente la position maximale jamais atteinte par un individu. Nous montrons que la distribution de $M$ satisfait l’estimée asymptotique suivante : $P\{M\ge x\}\sim (2/\alpha)^{1/2}x^{-\alpha/2}$.

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Steven P. Lalley. Yuan Shao. "Maximal displacement of critical branching symmetric stable processes." Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist. 52 (3) 1161 - 1177, August 2016. https://doi.org/10.1214/15-AIHP677

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Received: 16 July 2013; Revised: 12 September 2014; Accepted: 27 March 2015; Published: August 2016
First available in Project Euclid: 28 July 2016

zbMATH: 1352.60122
MathSciNet: MR3531704
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/15-AIHP677

Subjects:
Primary: 60J80
Secondary: 60J15

Keywords: Branching stable process , Critical branching process , Feynman–Kac formula , fractional Laplacian , Nonlinear convolution equation

Rights: Copyright © 2016 Institut Henri Poincaré

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