Large deviations for Branching Processes in Random Environment

zbMATH Open1193.60098arXiv0810.4991MaRDI QIDQ5188201FDOQ5188201

Authors: Vincent Bansaye, Julien Berestycki 

Publication date: 10 March 2010

Abstract: A branching process in random environment $(Z_n,ninN)$ is a generalization of Galton Watson processes where at each generation the reproduction law is picked randomly. In this paper we give several results which belong to the class of {it large deviations}. By contrast to the Galton-Watson case, here random environments and the branching process can conspire to achieve atypical events such as $Z_{n}le{e}^{cn}$ when $c$ is smaller than the typical geometric growth rate $$ and $Z_{n}ge{e}^{cn}$ when $$. One way to obtain such an atypical rate of growth is to have a typical realization of the branching process in an atypical sequence of environments. This gives us a general lower bound for the rate of decrease of their probability. When each individual leaves at least one offspring in the next generation almost surely, we compute the exact rate function of these events and we show that conditionally on the large deviation event, the trajectory $tmapstofrac1nlog{Z}_{[nt]},tin[0,1]$ converges to a deterministic function $f_c:[0,1]mapsto{R}_{+}$ in probability in the sense of the uniform norm. The most interesting case is when $$ and we authorize individuals to have only one offspring in the next generation. In this situation, conditionally on $Z_{n}le{e}^{cn}$, the population size stays fixed at 1 until a time $simn{t}_c$. After time $n{t}_c$ an atypical sequence of environments let $Z_n$ grow with the appropriate rate ($$) to reach $c.$ The corresponding map $f_c(t)$ is piecewise linear and is 0 on $[0,t_c]$ and $f_c(t)=c(t-t_c)/(1-t_c)$ on $[t_c,1].$

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4991

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zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsbranching processesrandom environments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Processes in random environments (60K37)

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