Slowdown in branching Brownian motion with inhomogeneous variance

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DOI10.1214/15-AIHP675zbMATH Open1366.60105arXiv1307.3583MaRDI QIDQ330692FDOQ330692


Authors: P. Maillard, Ofer Zeitouni Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 26 October 2016

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Probabilités et Statistiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a model of Branching Brownian Motion with time-inhomogeneous variance of the form sigma(t/T), where sigma is a strictly decreasing function. Fang and Zeitouni (2012) showed that the maximal particle's position M_T is such that M_T-v_sigma T is negative of order T^{-1/3}, where v_sigma is the integral of the function sigma over the interval [0,1]. In this paper, we refine we refine this result and show the existence of a function m_T, such that M_T-m_T converges in law, as T oinfty. Furthermore, m_T=v_sigma T - w_sigma T^{1/3} - sigma(1)log T + O(1) with w_sigma = 2^{-1/3}alpha_1 int_0^1 sigma(s)^{1/3} |sigma'(s)|^{2/3},dd s. Here, -alpha_1=-2.33811... is the largest zero of the Airy function. The proof uses a mixture of probabilistic and analytic arguments.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3583




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