Renormalizations of Branching Random Walks in Equilibrium

Iljana Zähle (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Abstract


We study the $d$-dimensional branching random walk for $d>2$. This process has extremal equilibria for every intensity. We are interested in the large space scale and large space-time scale behavior of the equilibrium state. We show that the fluctuations of space and space-time averages with a non-classical scaling are Gaussian in the limit. For this purpose we use the historical process, which allows a family decomposition. To control the distribution of the families we use the concept of canonical measures and Palm distributions.

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Pages: 1-57

Publication Date: December 3, 2001

DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v7-106

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