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Large deviations for the maximum of a reducible two-type branching Brownian motion

Probability 2025-04-08 v4

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 motions and create offspring at a 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, Belloum and Mallein in \cite{BeMa21} showed that the maximum position MtM_t of all particles alive at time tt, suitably centered by a deterministic function mtm_t, converge weakly. In this work, we are interested in the decay rate of the following upper large deviation probability, as tt\rightarrow\infty, P(Mtθmt),θ>1. {\mathbb P}(M_t\geq \theta m_t),\quad \theta>1. We shall show that the decay rate function exhibits phase transitions depending on certain relations between θ\theta, the variance of the underlying Brownian motion and the branching rate.

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@article{arxiv.2408.00532,
  title  = {Large deviations for the maximum of a reducible two-type branching Brownian motion},
  author = {Hui He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00532},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

An error in the proof of Theorem 1.1 was corrected