Law of large numbers for a class of superdiffusions (Q2490098)

It is known [\textit{R. G. Pinsky}, Ann. Probab. 24, No. 1, 237--267 (1996; Zbl 0854.60087)] that the finite mass superdiffusion \(X\) corresponding to the semilinear operator \(Lu+\beta u-\alpha u^2\) exhibits local extinction if and only if \(\lambda_c\leq 0\) where \(\lambda_c:=\lambda_c(L+\beta)\) is the generalized principal eigenvalue of \(L+\beta\) on \(R^d\). For the case when \(\lambda_c>0\) it was shown by \textit{J. Engländer} and \textit{D. Turaev} [ibid. 30, No. 2, 683--722 (2002; Zbl 1014.60080)] that in law the superdiffusion locally behaves like \(\exp[t\lambda_c]\) times a nonnegative non-degenerate random variable provided the operator \(L+\beta-\lambda_c \) satisfies certain spectral conditions and that \(\alpha\) and \(\mu=X_0\) are not ``to large''. The authors of the present paper prove that the mentioned convergence in law can be replaced by convergence in probability.