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The maximum of branching Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^d$

Probability 2022-08-25 v4

Abstract

We show that in branching Brownian motion (BBM) in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, d2d\geq 2, the law of RtR_t^*, the maximum distance of a particle from the origin at time tt, converges as tt\to\infty to the law of a randomly shifted Gumbel random variable.

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@article{arxiv.2104.07698,
  title  = {The maximum of branching Brownian motion in $\mathbb{R}^d$},
  author = {Yujin H. Kim and Eyal Lubetzky and Ofer Zeitouni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07698},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

53 pages, 7 figures. Minor typos corrected. Final version, to appear in the Annals of Applied Probability