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Asymptotic behavior of survival probability for a branching random walk with a barrier
AIMS Mathematics 2023, 8(2): 5049-5059
Published: 15 February 2023
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Consider a branching random walk with a mechanism of elimination. We assume that the underlying Galton-Watson process is supercritical, thus the branching random walk has a positive survival probability. A mechanism of elimination, which is called a barrier, is introduced to erase the particles who lie above r i + ε i α and all their descendants, where i presents the generation of the particles, α > 1 / 3 , ε R and r is the asymptotic speed of the left-most position of the branching random walk. First we show that the particle system still has a positive survival probability after we introduce the barrier with ε > 0. Moreover, we show that the decay of the probability is faster than e β ε β as ε 0, where β , β are two positive constants depending on the branching random walk and α. The result in the present paper extends a conclusion in Gantert et al. (2011) in some extent. Our proof also works for some time-inhomogeneous cases.

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