Population stabilization in branching Brownian motion with absorption and drift

DOI10.4310/CMS.2016.V14.N4.A5zbMATH Open1344.92133arXiv1409.4836OpenAlexW2328713315MaRDI QIDQ305071FDOQ305071

Authors: Christopher Henderson 

Publication date: 26 August 2016

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider, through PDE methods, branching Brownian motion with drift and absorption. It is well know that there exists a critical drift which separates those processes which die out almost surely and those which survive with positive probability. In this work, we consider lower order terms to the critical drift which ensures a non-negative, bounded expected number of particles and convergence of this expectation to a limiting number, $alph{a}_{0}geq0$, which is positive for some initial data. In particular, we show that, in an average sense, the expected number of particles stabilizes to $alph{a}_0$ like $O(log(t)/t)$ if and only if the multiplicative factor of the $O(t^{-1/2})$ correction term is $3sqrtpi{t}^{-1/2}$. Otherwise, the convergence is like $O(1/sqrtt)$. We point out some connections between this work and recent work investigating the expansion of the front location for the initial value problem in Fisher-KPP.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4836

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zbMATH Keywords

delayselection modelspopulation dynamicsbranching Brownian motionFisher-KPPabsorptionBramson correction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57)

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