Asymptotic regimes for the partition into colonies of a branching process with emigration (Q614111)

The author considers non-degenerate critical or sub-critical Galton-Watson processes in which children either stay at their parent's location or, with some probability, emigrate to a new, hitherto unoccupied location, thus founding a new ``colony''. The set of possible locations does not have to be specified except for having to be infinite. The interest is in the asymptotic behaviour of the partition of the total population into colonies when the population is large and migration rare. Under regimes related to classical limit theorems for resealed Galton-Watson processes, involving Lévy processes without negative jumps, the partition, after appropriate resealing, converges to a random measure. This measure is constructed from the restriction of a Poisson point measure to a certain random region. Its cumulant is characterized as the unique solution of an integral equation involving the intensity measure of the underlying Poisson measure.