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Speed and fluctuations of N-particle branching Brownian motion with spatial selection

Probability 2018-06-20 v4 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We consider branching Brownian motion on the real line with the following selection mechanism: Every time the number of particles exceeds a (large) given number NN, only the NN right-most particles are kept and the others killed. After rescaling time by log3N\log^3N, we show that the properly recentred position of the αN\lceil \alpha N\rceil-th particle from the right, α(0,1)\alpha\in(0,1), converges in law to an explicitly given spectrally positive L\'evy process. This behaviour has been predicted to hold for a large class of models falling into the universality class of the FKPP equation with weak multiplicative noise [Brunet et al., Phys. Rev. E \textbf{73}(5), 056126 (2006)] and is proven here for the first time for such a model.

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@article{arxiv.1304.0562,
  title  = {Speed and fluctuations of N-particle branching Brownian motion with spatial selection},
  author = {Pascal Maillard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0562},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Continues and essentially replaces arXiv:1112.0266v1. Based on Chapter 2 of my PhD thesis at Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, available at arXiv:1210.3500. Changes in v2 (74 pages): Reorganisation, simplifications in some places, typos corrected. Changes in v3 (84 pages): Many small corrections and additional details. Changes in v4 (87 pages): journal version, minor modifications