On the supports of measure-valued critical branching Brownian motion (Q5916482)

This paper is a short addendum to a previous article by the author [ibid. 16, No.1, 200-221 (1988; Zbl 0635.60094)], in which a study of the asymptotic behaviour of hitting probabilities of distant balls, range and local extinction, was carried out for a class of measure-valued branching Brownian motions on \({\mathbb{R}}^ d\) which may be obtained as high-density limits (in law) of the classical particle models. In the addendum an omission in the original article is treated which concerns the ``persistence'' of the process in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 2\). Specifically it is shown (in the finite-variance case of branching) that when the initial state is Lebesgue measure then, with probability 1, the mass in any bounded (nonempty) open set, at time t, does not tend to zero as \(t\to \infty\) (although it does so, in probability). A summary is then given of the trichotomy of behaviours, as \(t\to \infty\), in the three cases \(d=1\), \(d=2\), and \(d\geq 3\).