The critical branching random walk in a random environment dies out
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1. | Title | Title of document | The critical branching random walk in a random environment dies out |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Olivier Garet; Université de Lorraine; France |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Régine Marchand; Université de Lorraine; France |
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3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | branching random walk; random environment; survival; critical behavior; renormalization; block construction |
3. | Subject | Subject classification | 60K35; 82B43 |
4. | Description | Abstract | We study the possibility for branching random walks in random environment (BRWRE) to survive. The particles perform simple symmetric random walks on the $d$-dimensional integer lattice, while at each time unit, they split into independent copies according to time-space i.i.d. offspring distributions. As noted by Comets and Yoshida, the BRWRE is naturally associated with the directed polymers in random environment (DPRE), for which the quantity $\Psi$ called the free energy is well studied. Comets and Yoshida proved that there is no survival when $\Psi<0$ and that survival is possible when $\Psi>0$. We proved here that, except for degenerate cases, the BRWRE always die when $\Psi=0$. This solves a conjecture of Comets and Yoshida. |
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7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2013-01-31 |
8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | http://ecp.ejpecp.org/article/view/2438 |
10. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1214/ECP.v18-2438 |
11. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Electronic Communications in Probability; Vol 18 |
12. | Language | English=en | en |
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