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A simple path to asymptotics for the frontier of a branching Brownian motion

Probability 2013-10-04 v5

Abstract

We give short proofs of two classical results about the position of the extremal particle in a branching Brownian motion, one concerning the median position and another the almost sure behaviour.

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@article{arxiv.1106.4771,
  title  = {A simple path to asymptotics for the frontier of a branching Brownian motion},
  author = {Matthew I. Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4771},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOP753 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)