A Trotter-type approach to infinite rate mutually catalytic branching (Q964775)

The paper departs form a stochastic model of mutually catalytic (continuous state) branching due to \textit{D. A. Dawson} and \textit{E. A. Perkins} [Ann. Probab. 26, No. 3, 1088--1138 (1998; Zbl 0938.60042)], with a countable site space and locally defined catalytic branching mechanism. As the branching rate approaches infinity, the corresponding stochastic process converges to so-called infinite rate mutually catalytic branching process. That may be obtained as a solution of a certain martingale problem and e.g. a construction of approximate solutions to the stochastic differential equations of the jump type. The present authors adopt the Trotter-type approach to handle a transition from a discrete to time-continuous Markov chain by interpreting the previous procedure as a Trotter product approach to strongly continuous contraction semigroups. Suitable convergence theorems are established.