On the volume of the shrinking branching Brownian sausage

Abstract

The branching Brownian sausage in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ was defined by Engländer in [Stoch. Proc. Appl. 88 (2000)] similarly to the classical Wiener sausage, as the random subset of ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ scooped out by moving balls of fixed radius with centers following the trajectories of the particles of a branching Brownian motion (BBM). We consider a $d$-dimensional dyadic BBM, and study the large-time asymptotic behavior of the volume of the associated exponentially shrinking branching Brownian sausage (BBM-sausage). Using a previous result on the density of the support of BBM, and some well-known results on the classical Wiener sausage and Brownian hitting probabilities, we obtain almost sure limit theorems as time tends to infinity on the volume of the shrinking BBM-sausage in all dimensions.

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