Small positive values for supercritical branching processes in random environment

DOI10.1214/13-AIHP538zbMATH Open1307.60114arXiv1112.5257MaRDI QIDQ405490FDOQ405490

Christian Böinghoff, Vincent Bansaye

Publication date: 5 September 2014

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

Abstract: Branching Processes in Random Environment (BPREs) $(Z_n:ngeq0)$ are the generalization of Galton-Watson processes where in each generation the reproduction law is picked randomly in an i.i.d. manner. In the supercritical case, the process survives with positive probability and then almost surely grows geometrically. This paper focuses on rare events when the process takes positive but small values for large times. We describe the asymptotic behavior of $mathbbP(1leq{Z}_{n}leqk|Z_0=i)$, $k,iinmathbbN$ as $nightarrowinfty$. More precisely, we characterize the exponential decrease of $mathbbP(Z_n=k|Z_0=i)$ using a spine representation due to Geiger. We then provide some bounds for this rate of decrease. If the reproduction laws are linear fractional, this rate becomes more explicit and two regimes appear. Moreover, we show that these regimes affect the asymptotic behavior of the most recent common ancestor, when the population is conditioned to be small but positive for large times.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5257

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zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsphase transitionsrandom environmentsupercritical branching processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Processes in random environments (60K37)

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