Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Publication Title
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS in PROBABILITY
ISSN
1083-589X
Volume
22
Issue
29
First Page
1
Last Page
12
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/17-ECP60
Abstract
We first study a model, introduced recently in [4], of a critical branching random walk in an IID random environment on the d-dimensional integer lattice. The walker performs critical (0-2) branching at a lattice point if and only if there is no ‘obstacle’ placed there. The obstacles appear at each site with probability p ∈ [0, 1) independently of each other. We also consider a similar model, where the offspring distribution is subcritical. Let Sn be the event of survival up to time n. We show that on a set of full Ppmeasure, as n → ∞, P ω (Sn) ∼ 2/(qn) in the critical case, while this probability is asymptotically stretched exponential in the subcritical case. Hence, the model exhibits ‘self-averaging’ in the critical case but not in the subcritical one. I.e., in the first case, the asymptotic tail behavior is the same as in a ‘toy model’ where space is removed, while in the second, the spatial survival probability is larger than in the corresponding toy model, suggesting spatial strategies. A spine decomposition of the branching process along with known results on random walks are utilized.
Recommended Citation
Engländer, János and Peres, Yuval, "Survival asymptotics for branching random walks in IID environments" (2017). Mathematics Faculty Contributions. 5.
https://scholar.colorado.edu/math_facpapers/5