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May 2008 The Brownian net
Rongfeng Sun, Jan M. Swart
Ann. Probab. 36(3): 1153-1208 (May 2008). DOI: 10.1214/07-AOP357

Abstract

The (standard) Brownian web is a collection of coalescing one- dimensional Brownian motions, starting from each point in space and time. It arises as the diffusive scaling limit of a collection of coalescing random walks. We show that it is possible to obtain a nontrivial limiting object if the random walks in addition branch with a small probability. We call the limiting object the Brownian net, and study some of its elementary properties.

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Rongfeng Sun. Jan M. Swart. "The Brownian net." Ann. Probab. 36 (3) 1153 - 1208, May 2008. https://doi.org/10.1214/07-AOP357

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Published: May 2008
First available in Project Euclid: 9 April 2008

zbMATH: 1143.82020
MathSciNet: MR2408586
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/07-AOP357

Subjects:
Primary: 82C21
Secondary: 60D05 , 60F17 , 60K35

Keywords: branching-coalescing point set , branching-coalescing random walks , Brownian net , Brownian web

Rights: Copyright © 2008 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.36 • No. 3 • May 2008
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