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Anisotropic branching random walks on homogeneous trees

Irene Hueter1 and Steven P. Lalley2

(1)  University of Florida, Department of Mathematics, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. e-mail: hueter@math.ufl.edu, US
(2)  University of Chicago, Department of Statistics, Chicago, IL, USA. e-mail: lalley@stat.purdue.edu, US
Abstract.   Symmetric branching random walk on a homogeneous tree exhibits a weak survival phase: For parameter values in a certain interval, the population survives forever with positive probability, but, with probability one, eventually vacates every finite subset of the tree. In this phase, particle trails must converge to the geometric boundaryΩ of the tree. The random subset Λ of the boundary consisting of all ends of the tree in which the population survives, called the limit set of the process, is shown to have Hausdorff dimension no larger than one half the Hausdorff dimension of the entire geometric boundary. Moreover, there is strict inequality at the phase separation point between weak and strong survival except when the branching random walk is isotropic. It is further shown that in all cases there is a distinguished probability measure μ supported by Ω such that the Hausdorff dimension of Λ∩Ωμ, where Ωμ is the set of μ-generic points of Ω, converges to one half the Hausdorff dimension of Ωμ at the phase separation point. Exact formulas are obtained for the Hausdorff dimensions of Λ and Λ∩Ωμ, and it is shown that the log Hausdorff dimension of Λ has critical exponent 1/2 at the phase separation point.

Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): Primary 60J15, 60J80; Secondary 60K35

Key words and phrases: Anisotropic branching random walk – Hausdorff dimension – Homogeneous tree – Weak survival <!-ID=""Second author supported by NSF Grant DMS-9626590.-->

Received: 30 June 1998 / Revised version: 10 March 1999

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