Branching Random Walks in Space–Time Random Environment: Survival Probability, Global and Local Growth Rates

Francis Comets () and Nobuo Yoshida ()
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Francis Comets: Université Paris Diderot—Paris 7
Nobuo Yoshida: Kyoto University

Journal of Theoretical Probability, 2011, vol. 24, issue 3, 657-687

Abstract: Abstract We study the survival probability and the growth rate for branching random walks in random environment (BRWRE). The particles perform simple symmetric random walks on the d-dimensional integer lattice, while at each time unit, they split into independent copies according to time–space i.i.d. offspring distributions. The BRWRE is naturally associated with the directed polymers in random environment (DPRE), for which the quantity called the free energy is well studied. We discuss the survival probability (both global and local) for BRWRE and give a criterion for its positivity in terms of the free energy of the associated DPRE. We also show that the global growth rate for the number of particles in BRWRE is given by the free energy of the associated DPRE, though the local growth rate is given by the directional free energy.

Keywords: Branching random walks; Random environment; Survival; Global growth; Local growth; 60K37; 60F20; 60J80; 82D30; 82D60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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