Interacting diffusions and trees of excursions: convergence and comparison

Abstract

We consider systems of interacting diffusions with local population regulation. Our main result shows that the total mass process of such a system is bounded above by the total mass process of a tree of excursions with appropriate drift and diffusion coefficients. As a corollary, this entails a sufficient, explicit condition for extinction of the total mass as time tends to infinity. On the way to our comparison result, we establish that systems of interacting diffusions with uniform migration between finitely many islands converge to a tree of excursions as the number of islands tends to infinity. In the special case of logistic branching, this leads to a duality between the tree of excursions and the solution of a McKean-Vlasov equation.

Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/EJP.v17-2278 the Electronic Journal of Probability (http://ejp.ejpecp.org)

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