High-density limits of hierarchically structured branching-diffusing populations (Q678370)

The almost-sure short-term behaviour of hierarchically structured branching-diffusion populations is investigated. The branching-diffusion processes are described as weak or strong limits of certain appropriately rescaled hierarchical branching-diffusing particle systems. Characterization of superprocesses via Laplace functionals is discussed. The cluster structure of the hierarchical branching-diffusion process is described and an almost-sure lower estimate for the local propagation of mass from a point source is presented. The approach also leads to the derivation of new modulus-of-continuity-type results for measure-valued processes, which are used to derive upper estimates for the Hausdorff dimension of support.