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2023 On the boundary at infinity for branching random walk
Elisabetta Candellero, Tom Hutchcroft
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Electron. Commun. Probab. 28: 1-12 (2023). DOI: 10.1214/23-ECP560

Abstract

We prove that a supercritical branching random walk on a transient Markov chain converges almost surely under rescaling to a random measure on the Martin boundary of the underlying Markov chain. Several open problems and conjectures about this limiting measure are presented.

Funding Statement

TH was partially supported by ERC starting grant 804166 (SPRS). EC was supported by the project “Programma per Giovani Ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini” awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education. EC acknowledges partial support by “INdAM–GNAMPA Project 2019” and “INdAM–GNAMPA Project 2020”.

Acknowledgments

This work was initiated while TH was a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge, during which time he was supported by ERC starting grant 804166 (SPRS). EC was supported by the project “Programma per Giovani Ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini” awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education. EC also acknowledges partial support by “INdAM–GNAMPA Project 2019” and “INdAM–GNAMPA Project 2020”.

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Elisabetta Candellero. Tom Hutchcroft. "On the boundary at infinity for branching random walk." Electron. Commun. Probab. 28 1 - 12, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1214/23-ECP560

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Received: 13 January 2023; Accepted: 15 October 2023; Published: 2023
First available in Project Euclid: 14 November 2023

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/23-ECP560

Subjects:
Primary: 60J10 , 60J45 , 60J80

Keywords: Branching random walk , Markov chains , Martin boundary

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