Growth rates of the population in a branching Brownian motion with an inhomogeneous breeding potential

Julien Berestycki, Éric Brunet, John W. Harris, Simon C. Harris and Matthew I. Roberts

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 2015, vol. 125, issue 5, 2096-2145

Abstract: We consider a branching particle system where each particle moves as an independent Brownian motion and breeds at a rate proportional to its distance from the origin raised to the power p, for p∈[0,2). The asymptotic behaviour of the right-most particle for this system is already known; in this article we give large deviations probabilities for particles following “difficult” paths, growth rates along “easy” paths, the total population growth rate, and we derive the optimal paths which particles must follow to achieve this growth rate.

Keywords: Branching Brownian motion; Inhomogeneous breeding; Large deviations; Growth rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2014.12.008

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