On the Galton-Watson predator-prey process (Q1210491)

A discrete-time predator-prey random model is such that the predators evolve as a super-critical Galton-Watson process. Each prey is either killed by a predator, so it cannot reproduce, or it reproduces independently of all other population members and according to the same offspring distribution with mean greater than one. The \((X_ n,Y_ n)\), \(n\geq 0\), with \(X_ n\) the number of predators and \(Y_ n\) the number of prey in the \(n\) th generation, is called a Galton-Watson predator-prey process. Given \(X_ n\to\infty\), the questions of determination of conditions for \(Y_ n\to 0\) almost surely, and of determination of constants \(d_ n\), \(n\geq 1\), such that \(Y_ n/d_ n\) has a positive limit on the set of non-extinction, are completely answered. Proofs use the reformulation of the model as a two-district migration model.