Asymptotic behavior of a stochastic growth process associated with a system of interacting branching random walks (Q1851447)

The authors study a continuous time growth process on \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) \((d\geq 1)\) associated with an interacting particle system which can be described as follows. Initially there is only one simple symmetric continuous time random walk of total jump rate one located at the origin; then whenever a random walk visits a site still unvisited by any other random walk, it creates a new independent random walk starting from that site. Let \(P_d\) denote the law of such a process and \(S_d^0(t)\) the set of sites visited by all walks by time \(t\). It is proved that there exists a bounded non-empty convex set \(C_d\subset \mathbb{R}^d\) such that, for every \(\varepsilon > 0\), \(P_d\)-a.s. eventually in \(t\), the set \(S_d^0(t)\) is within an \(\varepsilon\) neighborhood of the set \([C_dt]\), where \([A]:= A\cap\mathbb{Z}^d\) for \(A\subset \mathbb{R}^d\). Moreover, for \(d\) large enough, the set \(C_d\) is not a ball under the Euclidean norm. It is also shown that the empirical density of particles within \(S_d^0(t)\) converges weakly to a product Poisson measure of parameter one.