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On the boundary local time measure of super-Brownian motion

Probability 2020-01-27 v1

Abstract

If LxL^x is the total occupation local time of dd-dimensional super-Brownian motion, XX, for d=2d=2 and d=3d=3, we construct a random measure L\mathcal{L}, called the boundary local time measure, as a rescaling of LxeλLxdxL^x e^{-\lambda L^x} dx as λ\lambda\to \infty, thus confirming a conjecture of \cite{MP17} and further show that the support of L\mathcal{L} equals the topological boundary of the range of XX, R\partial\mathcal{R}. This latter result uses a second construction of a boundary local time L~\widetilde{\mathcal{L}} given in terms of exit measures and we prove that L~=cL\widetilde{\mathcal{L}}=c\mathcal{L} a.s. for some constant c>0c>0. We derive reasonably explicit first and second moment measures for L\mathcal{L} in terms of negative dimensional Bessel processes and use it with the energy method to give a more direct proof of the lower bound of the Hausdorff dimension of R\partial\mathcal{R} in \cite{HMP18}. The construction requires a refinement of the L2L^2 upper bounds in \cite{MP17} and \cite{HMP18} to exact L2L^2 asymptotics. The methods also refine the left tail bounds for LxL^x in \cite{MP17} to exact asymptotics. We conjecture that the Minkowski content of R\partial\mathcal{R} is equal to the total mass of the boundary local time L\mathcal{L} up to some constant.

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@article{arxiv.2001.09137,
  title  = {On the boundary local time measure of super-Brownian motion},
  author = {Jieliang Hong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.09137},
  year   = {2020}
}