A new look at duality for the symbiotic branching model (Q1800820)

In this paper, the authors study the symbiotic branching model, a spatial population model in which two interacting types coexist, can move, and in which one type can only branch in the presence of the other one. They develop a moment-duality approach in such a way that it can also be used in the limit where the branching rate goes to infinity. The limit is identified in the case where the driving noises are perfectly anticorrelated. The infinite-branching-rate limit is a system of annihilating Brownian motions with a drift which depends on the initial imbalance between the two types. The paper uses a lot of highly sophisticated technology to push the duality all the way.