The extremal process of two-speed branching Brownian motion
Lisa Bärbel Hartung (Bonn University)
Abstract
We construct and describe the extremal process for variable speed branching Brownian motion, studied recently by Fang and Zeitouni, for the case of piecewise constant speeds; in fact for simplicity we concentrate on the case when the speed is $\sigma_1$ for $s\leq bt$ and $\sigma_2$ when $bt\leq s\leq t$. In the case $\sigma_1>\sigma_2$, the process is the concatenation of two BBM extremal processes, as expected. In the case $\sigma_1<\sigma_2$, a new family of cluster point processes arises, that are similar, but distinctively different from the BBM process. Our proofs follow the strategy of Arguin, Bovier, and Kistler.
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Publication Date: February 3, 2014
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v19-2982
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