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Many-to-few for non-local branching Markov process

Probability 2022-11-17 v1

Abstract

We provide a many-to-few formula in the general setting of non-local branching Markov processes. This formula allows one to compute expectations of k-fold sums over functions of the population at k different times. The result generalises [14] to the non-local setting, as introduced in [11] and [8]. As an application, we consider the case when the branching process is critical, and conditioned to survive for a large time. In this setting, we prove a general formula for the limiting law of the death time of the most recent common ancestor of two particles selected uniformly from the population at two different times, as t tends to infinity. Moreover, we describe the limiting law of the population sizes at two different times, in the same asymptotic regime.

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@article{arxiv.2211.08662,
  title  = {Many-to-few for non-local branching Markov process},
  author = {Simon C. Harris and Emma Horton and Ellen Powell and Andreas E. Kyprianou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08662},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

29 pages, 3 figures

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