Branching Random Walk in an inhomogeneous breeding potential

Abstract

We consider a continuous-time branching random walk in the inhomogeneous breeding potential $\beta |.{|}^p$, where $\beta >0$, $p\ge 0$. We prove that the population almost surely explodes in finite time if $p>1$ and doesn't explode if $p\le 1$. In the non-explosive cases, we determine the asymptotic behaviour of the rightmost particle.

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