Super-Brownian motion with reflecting historical paths (Q5956923)

This paper combines two models that have been widely investigated separately: reflected particle systems (e.g. infinite systems of Brownian particles on the line that are reflected when they meet), and super-Brownian motion (which is a measure-valued process that arises as a limit of a system of branching Brownian motions -- in dimension 1 in this paper), as well as historical super-Brownian motion (which carries the memory of the past at each time). The objective of the paper is to build a superprocess with historical paths that do not cross over (but the measure-valued paths can touch each other). The construction of this system is done by a discrete approximation which is similar to that of super-Brownian motion from a system of branching Brownian motions. A key tool is the so-called Brownian snake. It is shown that the sequence of approximations for the historical process is tight, but the uniqueness of a limit law remains open. Some properties of the historical paths under any limiting distribution are proved as well.