Asymptotic regimes for the partition into colonies of a branching process with emigration

Authors
Citation
Bertoin, Jean, Asymptotic regimes for the partition into colonies of a branching process with emigration, Annals of applied probability , 20(6), 2010, pp. 1967-1988
ISSN journal
10505164
Volume
20
Issue
6
Year of publication
2010
Pages
1967 - 1988
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
We consider a spatial branching process with emigration in which children either remain at the same site as their parents or migrate to new locations and then found their own colonies. We are interested in asymptotics of the partition of the total population into colonies for large populations with rare migrations. Under appropriate regimes, we establish weak convergence of the rescaled partition to some random measure that is constructed from the restriction of a Poisson point measure to a certain random region, and whose cumulant solves a simple integral equation.