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Asymptotic behaviours of critical branching random walk in $\mathbb{R}^d$

Probability 2026-07-09 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behaviours of a critical branching random walk in Rd\mathbb{R}^d under the assumption that the offspring distribution belongs to the domain of attraction of an α\alpha-stable law with α(1,2]\alpha\in(1,2], and that the jump distribution has a finite 2αα1\frac{2\alpha}{\alpha-1}-th moment. First, we establish the precise decay rate for the tail probability of the all-time maximal displacement MdM^d. Next, we investigate the maximal displacement MndM_n^d at generation nn and prove a conditional limit theorem for the distribution of MndM_n^d given that the process survives up to generation nn. These results extend the corresponding 1-dimensional results of Lalley and Shao (2015) to the case d2d\ge2. Finally, we study the asymptotic behaviour of the total progeny ζ\zeta. In particular, we show that, conditioned on the event {Mdx}\{M^d\ge x\}, ζ\zeta converges in distribution under an appropriate normalization. This result reveals a quantitative relationship between the maximal displacement and the total progeny size.

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@article{arxiv.2607.08187,
  title  = {Asymptotic behaviours of critical branching random walk in $\mathbb{R}^d$},
  author = {Haojie Hou and Yaping Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.08187},
  year   = {2026}
}

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23 pages