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The all-time maximum for branching Brownian motion with absorption conditioned on long-time survival

Probability 2023-10-03 v1

Abstract

We consider branching Brownian motion in which initially there is one particle at xx, particles produce a random number of offspring with mean m+1m+1 at the time of branching events, and each particle branches at rate β=1/2m\beta = 1/2m. Particles independently move according to Brownian motion with drift 1-1 and are killed at the origin. It is well-known that this process eventually dies out with positive probability. We condition this process to survive for an unusually large time tt and study the behavior of the process at small times sts \ll t using a spine decomposition. We show, in particular, that the time when a particle gets furthest from the origin is of the order t5/6t^{5/6}.

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@article{arxiv.2310.00707,
  title  = {The all-time maximum for branching Brownian motion with absorption conditioned on long-time survival},
  author = {Pascal Maillard and Jason Schweinsberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.00707},
  year   = {2023}
}