Infinite rate mutually catalytic branching in infinitely many colonies: construction, characterization and convergence (Q1934359)

Dawson and Perkins (1998) studied mutually catalytic models with finite branching rates, i.e., systems of stochastic processes \((Y_{i,t})_{t\geq0}\) with \(i=1,2\) and \(k\in S\) for some countable site space \(S\), where the processes are coupled by some system of stochastic differential equations with a system of independent Brownian motions, and where the system is mainly described by some \(S\times S\)-dimensional transition matrix \(A\) and some branching rate \(\gamma\geq0\). The paper under review is the third in a series of papers by the authors on the corresponding model with the branching rate \(\gamma=\infty\). Under mild conditions on \(A\), this model is described and constructed as the unique solution of some martingale problem. As a second main result, the authors prove that their model is in fact a limit of the Dawson-Perkins model for \(\gamma\to\infty\). Moreover, the model is also characterized as a weak solution of an infinite system of stochastic differential equations driven by Poisson noise. Finally, some dual models are considered.