Survival and coexistence in stochastic spatial Lotka-Volterra models (Q2641901)

\textit{C. Neuhauser} and \textit{S. W. Pacala} [Ann. Appl. Probab. 9, No. 4, 1226--1259 (1999; Zbl 0948.92022)] introduced a stochastic spatial version of the Lotka-Volterra model for competition between two species. A low density limit theorem for this stochastic model was proved by the authors [Ann. Probab. 33, No. 3, 904--947 (2005; Zbl 1078.60082)], showing that in three or more dimensions certain generalized Lotka-Volterra models, suitably rescaled in time and space, converge to super-Brownian motion with drift. The goal of this paper is to obtain information about survival and coexistence for the Lotka-Volterra models from corresponding information about the limiting super-Brownian motion. This methodology has been successfully applied before in similar setting as in \textit{R. Durrett} and \textit{E. Perkins} [Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 114, No. 3, 309--399 (1999; Zbl 0953.60093)], where the long range contact process was treated and the convergence of such rescaled contact processes to super-Brownian motion was proved for dimension \(d \geq 2\). In this paper the authors use their convergence result (2005) to extend what is known about the parameter regions for the Lotka-Volterra process, and describe successfully those specific regions for the following two cases: (i) the case where survival of one type holds; and (ii) the case where coexistence holds.