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Anomalous spreading in reducible multitype branching Brownian motion

Probability 2021-04-08 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider a two-type reducible branching Brownian motion, defined as a particle system on the real line in which particles of two types move according to independent Brownian motion and create offspring at constant rate. Particles of type 11 can give birth to particles of types 11 and 22, but particles of type 22 only give birth to descendants of type 22. Under some specific conditions, Biggins (2012) shows that this process exhibit an anomalous spreading behaviour: the rightmost particle at time tt is much further than the expected position for the rightmost particle in a branching Brownian motion consisting only of particles of type 11 or of type 22. This anomalous spreading also has been investigated from a reaction-diffusion equation standpoint by Holzer (2014,2016). The aim of this article is to study the asymptotic behaviour of the position of the furthest particles in the two-type reducible branching Brownian motion, obtaining in particular tight estimates for the median of the maximal displacement.

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@article{arxiv.2011.03223,
  title  = {Anomalous spreading in reducible multitype branching Brownian motion},
  author = {Mohamed Ali Belloum and Bastien Mallein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03223},
  year   = {2021}
}