Backbone decomposition of multitype superprocesses

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Abstract: In this paper, we provide a construction of the so-called backbone decomposition for multitype supercritical superprocesses. While backbone decompositions are fairly well-known for both continuous-state branching processes and superprocesses in the one-type case, so far no such decompositions or even description of prolific genealogies have been given for the multitype cases. Here we focus on superprocesses, but by turning the movement off, we get the prolific backbone decomposition for multitype continuous-state branching processes as an easy consequence of our results.


The authors describe the main result of the paper as follows: For a multitype superprocess, the backbone is a multitype branching particle system formed by all the prolific individuals as in the Galton-Watson case. The multitype superprocess can be recovered by dressing the backbone with three different sorts of immigration, all of them corresponding to independent copies of the original process conditioned to become extinct. The continuous immigration is described by a Poisson point process of independent conditioned processes along the backbone, where the rate of immigration depends on the type of the particle in the backbone and a random measure, known as Dynkin-Kuznetsov measure, which assigns zero initial mass to the immigration process. The discontinuous immigration is described again by a Poisson point process of independent conditioned processes along the backbone, where the rate of immigration is given by the law of the conditioned process with an initial randomised mass that depends on the type of the particle in the backbone. Finally, at each branching time of the backbone, independent copies of the conditioned process immigrate, with initial randomised mass that depends on the number of offspring of each type of the particle at the branching point.











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