Limit theorems for supercritical branching random fields with immigration (Q1098501)

Consider in \(R^ d\) a model of supercritical branching Brownian motion with immigration. Let \(N_ t(A)\) denote the number of particles present at time t in the Borel set \(A\subset R^ d\). For fixed t, understand \(N_ t\) as a counting measure \(\sum_{i}\delta_{x(i)}\) where the x(i) are the positions of the particles at time t. Give now each atom \(\delta_{x(i)}\) of \(N_ t\) a weight, namely the number of descendants the particle correspondng to \(\delta_{x(i)}\) has at time \(T\geq t\). The arising new counting measure is denoted by \(N^ T_ t\). In other words, \(N^ T_ t(A)\) is the number of particles present at time T such that their ancestor at time t had positions in A. Opposed to N, the counting measure-valued process \(N^ T:=\{N^ T_ t\); \(0\leq t\leq T\}\) carries certain genealogical information. Under a space-time-mass and immigration rate scaling, the author obtains a law of large numbers, a fluctuation limit theorem, and studies properties of the fluctuation limit process. With a different method also a partly more general model (concerning the particle migration process and life-time distribution) is treated. The paper is partially based on \textit{D. A. Dawson} and the author, Math. Nachr. 118, 19-46 (1984; Zbl 0553.60073).