THE GENEALOGY OF BRANCHING BROWNIAN MOTION WITH ABSORPTION
THE GENEALOGY OF BRANCHING BROWNIAN MOTION WITH ABSORPTION
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DOI:
10.1214/11-aop728
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发表时间:
2013-03-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Schweinsberg, Jason
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作者:
Berestycki, Julien;Berestycki, Nathanael;Schweinsberg, Jason
We consider a system of particles which perform branching Brownian motion with negative drift and are killed upon reaching zero, in the near-critical regime where the total population stays roughly constant with approximately N particles. We show that the characteristic time scale for the evolution of this population is of order (log N)(3), in the sense that when time is measured in these units, the scaled number of particles converges to a variant of Neveu's continuous-state branching process. Furthermore, the genealogy of the particles is then governed by a coalescent process known as the Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent. This validates the nonrigorous predictions by Brunet, Derrida, Muller and Munier for a closely related model.