Asymptotically One-Dimensional Diffusion on the Sierpinski Gasket and Multi-Type Branching Processes with Varying Environment

B. M. Hambly () and O. D. Jones ()
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B. M. Hambly: University of Oxford
O. D. Jones: University of Southampton

Journal of Theoretical Probability, 2002, vol. 15, issue 2, 285-322

Abstract: Abstract Asymptotically one-dimensional diffusions on the Sierpinski gasket constitute a one parameter family of processes with significantly different behaviour to the Brownian motion. Due to homogenization effects they behave globally like the Brownian motion, yet locally they have a preferred direction of motion. We calculate the spectral dimension for these processes and obtain short time heat kernel estimates in the Euclidean metric. The results are derived using branching process techniques, and we give estimates for the left tail of the limiting distribution for a supercritical multi-type branching process with varying environment.

Keywords: diffusion; fractal; Sierpinski gasket; spectral dimension; heat kernel; branching process; multi-type; varying environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1014858709284

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