Superprocesses with coalescing Brownian spatial motion as large-scale limits (Q702401)

Superprocesses of several types have been shown to arise as limits of various kinds of branching and interacting particle systems. A class of superprocesses with dependent spatial motion (SDSM) has been studied by several authors. In particular, \textit{D. A. Dawson}, \textit{Z. Li} and \textit{H. Wang} [Electron. J. Probab. 6, Paper No. 25 (2001; Zbl 1008.60093)] stated that in the case of the purely atomic SDSM studied therein, a suitably rescaled limit would lead to a superprocess with coalescing spatial motion (SCSM), which seems to be a new phenomenon in this area, but this was not proved because some questions regarding the SCSM remained open. In this paper the above-mentioned statement is proved. The proof is based on one-dimensional excursions.