``Trees under attack: a Ray-Knight representation of Feller's branching diffusion with logistic growth

DOI10.1007/S00440-011-0408-XMaRDI QIDQ1950374zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vi Le, Etienne Pardoux, Anton Wakolbinger

Publication date 13 May 2013

Published in Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1202

zbMATH Keywords

exploration processFeller branching with logistic growthGirsanov transformlocal timeRay-Knight representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local time and additive functionals (60J55) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

Abstract: We obtain a representation of Feller's branching diffusion with logistic growth in terms of the local times of a reflected Brownian motion $H$ with a drift that is affine linear in the local time accumulated by $H$ at its current level. As in the classical Ray-Knight representation, the excursions of $H$ are the exploration paths of the trees of descendants of the ancestors at time $t=0$, and the local time of $H$ at height $t$ measures the population size at time $t$ (see e.g. cite{LG4}). We cope with the dependence in the reproduction by introducing a pecking order of individuals: an individual explored at time $s$ and living at time $t=H_s$ is prone to be killed by any of its contemporaneans that have been explored so far. The proof of our main result relies on approximating $H$ with a sequence of Harris paths $H^N$ which figure in a Ray-Knight representation of the total mass of a branching particle system. We obtain a suitable joint convergence of $H^N$ together with its local times {em and} with the Girsanov densities that introduce the dependence in the reproduction.

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