Structure of the particle population for a branching random walk with a critical reproduction law

Abstract

We consider a continuous-time symmetric branching random walk on the $d$-dimensional lattice, $d\ge 1$, and assume that at the initial moment there is one particle at every lattice point. Moreover, we assume that the underlying random walk has a finite variance of jumps and the reproduction law is described by a critical Bienamye-Galton-Watson process at every lattice point. We study the structure of the particle subpopulation generated by the initial particle situated at a lattice point $x$. We answer why vanishing of the majority of subpopulations does not affect the convergence to the steady state and leads to clusterization for lattice dimensions $d=1$ and $d=2$.

18 pages, 4 figures