Occupation times of subcritical branching immigration systems with Markov motion, CLT and deviation principles

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Abstract: In this paper we consider two related stochastic models. The first one is a branching system consisting of particles moving according to a Markov family in R^d and undergoing subcritical branching with a constant rate of V>0. New particles immigrate to the system according to a homogeneous space time Poisson random field. The second model is the superprocess corresponding to the branching particle system. We study rescaled occupation time process and the process of its fluctuations with very mild assumptions on the Markov family. In the general setting a functional central limit theorem as well as large and moderate deviations principles are proved. The subcriticality of the branching law determines the behaviour in large time scales and in "overwhelms" the properties of the particles' motion. For this reason the results are the same for all dimensions and can be obtained for a wide class of Markov processes (both properties are unusual for systems with critical branching).


The author studies two closely related stochastic models. The first is a subcritical branching particle system with immigration. The particles move independently in \(\mathbb{R}^d\) according to a time-homogeneous Markov family. The lifetime of each particle is exponential; when a particle dies it has either two offspring particles with probability \(q\) or none with probability \(1-q\), where \(q < 1/2\). New particles immigrate according to a homogeneous Poisson random field in time and space.NEWLINENEWLINEThe second model is a limiting case of the first, a measure-valued time-homogeneous Markov process, that is, a superprocess. Let \((N_t)_{t \geq 0}\) denote either of these two processes; the main objective of the paper is to study the rescaled occupation time process NEWLINE\[NEWLINE Y_T(t) := \frac{1}{F_T} \int_0^{Tt} N_s\, ds, \quad t \geq 0, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE and its fluctuation NEWLINE\[NEWLINE X_T(t) := \frac{1}{F_T} \int_0^{Tt} (N_s - \operatorname{E}N_s)\, ds, \quad t \geq 0, NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(F_T\) denotes a suitable deterministic norming which may vary from case to case.NEWLINENEWLINEUnder certain assumptions, the paper gives functional central limit theorems, large and moderate deviation theorems for the processes \(X_T\) and \(Y_T\), with both models. A more detailed version of the paper can be found in the extended version [\url{arXiv:0911.0777}].











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