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A shape theorem for BBM in a periodic environment

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Abstract

We consider the long-time behaviour of binary branching Brownian motion (BBM) where the branching rate depends on a periodic spatial heterogeneity. We prove that almost surely as tt\to\infty, the heterogeneous BBM at time tt, normalized by tt, approaches a deterministic convex shape with respect to Hausdorff distance. Our approach relies on establishing tail bounds on the probability of existence of BBM particles lying in half-spaces, which in particular yields the asymptotic speed of propagation of projections of the BBM in every direction. Our arguments are primarily probabilistic in nature, but additionally exploit the existence of a "front speed" (or minimal speed of a pulsating traveling front solution) for the Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion equation naturally associated to the BBM.

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@article{arxiv.2507.10515,
  title  = {A shape theorem for BBM in a periodic environment},
  author = {Louigi Addario-Berry and Arturo Arellano Arias and Jessica Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.10515},
  year   = {2025}
}

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46 pages

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