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The maximal displacement of radially symmetric branching random walk in $\mathbb{R}^d$

Probability 2025-08-11 v2

Abstract

We consider discrete-time branching random walks with a radially symmetric distribution. Independently of each other individuals generate offspring whose relative locations are given by a copy of a radially symmetric point process L\mathcal{L}. The number of particles at time tt form a supercritical Galton-Watson process. We investigate the maximal distance to the origin of such branching random walks. Conditioned on survival, we show that, under some assumptions on L\mathcal{L}, it grows in the same way as for branching Brownian motion or a broad class of one-dimensional branching random walks: the first term is linear in time and the second logarithmic. The constants in front of these terms are explicit and depend only on the mean measure of L\mathcal{L} and dimension. Our main tool in the proof is a ballot theorem with moving barrier which may be of independent interest.

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@article{arxiv.2309.14738,
  title  = {The maximal displacement of radially symmetric branching random walk in $\mathbb{R}^d$},
  author = {Viktor Bezborodov and Nina Gantert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.14738},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Revised version accepted for publication in Annals of Applied Probability