Maximal displacement and population growth for branching Brownian motions

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Abstract: We study the maximal displacement and related population for a branching Brownian motion in Euclidean space in terms of the principal eigenvalue of an associated Schr"odinger type operator. We first determine their growth rates on the survival event. We then establish the upper deviation for the maximal displacement under the possibility of extinction. Under the non-extinction condition, we further discuss the decay rate of the upper deviation probability and the population growth at the critical phase.


For \(y>0\), denote by \(Z_t^{(y)}\) the number of particles in a spatially inhomogeneous branching Brownian motion in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) which are located in \(\{x\in\mathbb{R}^d: |x|<y\}\) at time \(t\). Under suitable assumptions the author investigates the a.s.\ asymptotic behavior of \(Z_t^{(\delta t)}\) as \(t\to\infty\) for all \(\delta>0\). As a corollary, it is shown that \(L_t\) the maximal norm of the particles alive at time \(t\) grows linearly on the event of survival. Further, close upper and lower bounds are obtained for \(\mathbb{P}_x\{L_t\geq \delta t\}\), where \(x\in\mathbb{R}^d\) and \(t\) is large. From the author's results it follows that there exists \(\delta_0\) such that the growth rate of \(Z_t^{(\delta t)}\) undergoes the phase transition at \(\delta=\delta_0\). A law of the iterated logarithm-type result is proved for \(Z_t^{(\delta_0 t)}\).



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