Growing conditioned trees (Q1180178)

Consider a Markov branching particle system in \(R^ d\). Let \(\Phi\) denote the random genealogical tree generated up to time \(t\), and \(Z_ t\) the random population at time \(t\). The object of interest in this paper is the conditional distribution of \(\Phi\) given that \(Z_ t\) populates a given site. More precisely, denoting by \(P\) the distribution of \(\Phi\), the aim is to compute the desintegration of the joint measure \(P(d\Phi)Z_ t(dy)\) with respect to its second marginal (assuming that \(Z_ t\) a.s. has no multiple points). The problem is solved in two different ways. One uses ``tree methods'' developed by Neveu and Chauvin. The other uses Kallenberg's backward technique. Both methods require growing ``Palm trees'' for the individual occupying a given site. These ``Palm trees'' are Palm type distributions on the genealogical trees. The results are obtained first under the assumption of spatially homogeneous branching, and then extended to the inhomogeneous case.