Global survival of branching random walks and tree-like branching random walks

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Authors Cristian Coletti, Fabio Zucca, Daniela Bertacchi

Publication date 8 June 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04499, http://alea.impa.br/articles/v14/14-21.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

branching processbranching random walkcritical parametersgenerating functionglobal survivallocal survivaltree-likevarying environment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

Abstract: The reproduction speed of a continuous-time branching random walk is proportional to a positive parameter $lambda$. There is a threshold for $lambda$, which is called $lambd{a}_w$, that separates almost sure global extinction from global survival. Analogously, there exists another threshold $lambd{a}_s$ below which any site is visited almost surely a finite number of times (i.e.~local extinction) while above it there is a positive probability of visiting every site infinitely many times. The local critical parameter $lambd{a}_s$ is completely understood and can be computed as a function of the reproduction rates. On the other hand, only for some classes of branching random walks it is known that the global critical parameter $lambd{a}_w$ is the inverse of a certain function of the reproduction rates, which we denote by $K_w$. We provide here new sufficient conditions which guarantee that the global critical parameter equals $1/K_w$. This result extends previously known results for branching random walks on multigraphs and general branching random walks. We show that these sufficient conditions are satisfied by periodic tree-like branching random walks. We also discuss the critical parameter and the critical behaviour of continuous-time branching processes in varying environment. So far, only examples where $lambd{a}_w=1/K_w$ were known; here we provide an example where $lambd{a}_w>1/K_w$.

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