Surviving particles for subcritical branching processes in random environment

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DOI10.1016/J.SPA.2008.12.005zbMATH Open1169.60327arXiv0804.0853OpenAlexW2594412095MaRDI QIDQ2270876FDOQ2270876


Authors: Vincent Bansaye Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 29 July 2009

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The asymptotic behavior of a subcritical Branching Process in Random Environment (BPRE) starting with several particles depends on whether the BPRE is strongly subcritical (SS), intermediate subcritical (IS) or weakly subcritical (WS). %Descendances of particles for BPRE are not independent. In the (SS+IS) case, the asymptotic probability of survival is proportional to the initial number of particles, and conditionally on the survival of the population, only one initial particle survives a.s. These two properties do not hold in the (WS) case and different asymptotics are established, which require new results on random walks with negative drift. We provide an interpretation of these results by characterizing the sequence of environments selected when we condition on the survival of particles. This also raises the problem of the dependence of the Yaglom quasistationary distributions on the initial number of particles and the asymptotic behavior of the Q-process associated with a subcritical BPRE.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0853




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