Growth-fragmentation processes in Brownian motion indexed by the Brownian tree

Abstract

We consider the model of Brownian motion indexed by the Brownian tree. For every $r\ge 0$ and every connected component of the set of points where Brownian motion is greater than $r$, we define the boundary size of this component, and we then show that the collection of these boundary sizes evolves when $r$ varies like a well-identified growth-fragmentation process. We then prove that the same growth-fragmentation process appears when slicing a Brownian disk at height $r$ and considering the perimeters of the resulting connected components.

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