Sharp concentration for the largest and smallest fragment in a k-regular self-similar fragmentation

DOI10.1214/21-AOP1556zbMATH Open1498.60315arXiv2102.08935MaRDI QIDQ2135402FDOQ2135402

Authors: Piotr Dyszewski, Nina Gantert, Samuel Johnston, Joscha Prochno, Dominik Schmid 

Publication date: 6 May 2022

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the asymptotics of the $k$-regular self-similar fragmentation process. For $alpha>0$ and an integer $kgeq2$, this is the Markov process $(I_t{)}_{tgeq0}$ in which each $I_t$ is a union of open subsets of $[0,1)$, and independently each subinterval of $I_t$ of size $u$ breaks into $k$ equally sized pieces at rate $u^{a}lpha$. Let $k^{-m_t}$ and $k^{-M_t}$ be the respective sizes of the largest and smallest fragments in $I_t$. By relating $(I_t{)}_{tgeq0}$ to a branching random walk, we find that there exist explicit deterministic functions $g(t)$ and $h(t)$ such that $|m_t-g(t)|leq1$ and $|M_t-h(t)|leq1$ for all sufficiently large $t$. Furthermore, for each $n$, we study the final time at which fragments of size $k^{-n}$ exist. In particular, by relating our branching random walk to a certain point process, we show that, after suitable rescaling, the laws of these times converge to a Gumbel distribution as $noinfty$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08935

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zbMATH Keywords

point processfragmentationbranching random walk

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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