Backbone decomposition of multitype superprocesses (Q2042033)

The authors describe the main result of the paper as follows: For a multitype superprocess, the backbone is a multitype branching particle system formed by all the prolific individuals as in the Galton-Watson case. The multitype superprocess can be recovered by dressing the backbone with three different sorts of immigration, all of them corresponding to independent copies of the original process conditioned to become extinct. The continuous immigration is described by a Poisson point process of independent conditioned processes along the backbone, where the rate of immigration depends on the type of the particle in the backbone and a random measure, known as Dynkin-Kuznetsov measure, which assigns zero initial mass to the immigration process. The discontinuous immigration is described again by a Poisson point process of independent conditioned processes along the backbone, where the rate of immigration is given by the law of the conditioned process with an initial randomised mass that depends on the type of the particle in the backbone. Finally, at each branching time of the backbone, independent copies of the conditioned process immigrate, with initial randomised mass that depends on the number of offspring of each type of the particle at the branching point.