TY - JOUR
T1 - Invariant measures of critical spatial branching processes in high dimensions
AU - Bramson, Maury
AU - Cox, J. T.
AU - Greven, Andreas
PY - 1997/1
Y1 - 1997/1
N2 - We consider two critical spatial branching processes on ℝd: critical branching Brownian motion, and the critical Dawson-Watanabe process. A basic feature of these processes is that their ergodic behavior is highly dimension dependent. It is known that in low dimensions, d ≤ 2, the only invariant measure is δ0, the unit point mass on the empty state. In high dimensions, d ≥ 3, there is a family {vθ», θ ∈ [0, ∞)} of extremal invariant measures; the measures vθ are translation invariant and indexed by spatial intensity. We prove here, for d ≥ 3, that all invariant measures are convex combinations of these measures.
AB - We consider two critical spatial branching processes on ℝd: critical branching Brownian motion, and the critical Dawson-Watanabe process. A basic feature of these processes is that their ergodic behavior is highly dimension dependent. It is known that in low dimensions, d ≤ 2, the only invariant measure is δ0, the unit point mass on the empty state. In high dimensions, d ≥ 3, there is a family {vθ», θ ∈ [0, ∞)} of extremal invariant measures; the measures vθ are translation invariant and indexed by spatial intensity. We prove here, for d ≥ 3, that all invariant measures are convex combinations of these measures.
KW - Critical Dawson-Watanabe process
KW - Critical branching Brownian motion
KW - Invariant measures
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U2 - 10.1214/aop/1024404278
DO - 10.1214/aop/1024404278
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031511640
SN - 0091-1798
VL - 25
SP - 56
EP - 70
JO - Annals of Probability
JF - Annals of Probability
IS - 1
ER -