Quenched invariance principles for the maximal particle in branching random walk in random environment and the parabolic Anderson model (Q2184813)

A branching random walk in spatial branching random environment (BRWRE) is a continuous-time particle system on \(\mathbb{Z}\) evolving as follows. Each particle behaves independently of the others. A particle at position \(x\) can either jump at rate \(1\) to \(x+1\) or \(x-1\), chosen with probability \(\frac{1}{2}\), or split into two particles at rate \(\xi(x)\). The family \((\xi(x), x \in \mathbb{Z})\) is chosen as an i.i.d. family of random variables that are bounded away from \(0\) and \(\infty\). The BRWRE is linked to the randomized Fisher-KPP equation, as well as the parabolic Anderson model, its linearised version. Indeed, writing \(M(t)\) the position at time \(t\) of the rightmost particle in the BRWRE, then \((t,x) \mapsto \mathbb{P}(M(t) \leq x)\) is a solution to the randomized F-KPP equation. The authors prove an invariance principle for \((\frac{M(tn) - v_0 tn}{\sigma \sqrt{n}}, t \in [0,1])_{n \in \mathbb{N}}\). The proof is based on first and second moment computations of additive functionals of the BRWRE as well as showing the tightness of \(\left(\frac{M(t)-\bar{m}(t)}{\log (t)}, t \geq 2\right)\), where \(\bar{m}(t)\) is the so-called breakpoint of the parabolic Anderson model.