Lower deviation probabilities for level sets of the branching random walk

Abstract

Given a branching random walk$\{Z_n{\}}_{n\ge 0}$ on $\mathbb{R}$, let $Z_n([y,\infty ))$ be the number of particles located in $[y,\infty )$ at generation $n$. It is known from \cite{Biggins1977} that under some mild conditions, $n^{-1}\log Z_n([\theta x^{\ast }n,\infty ))$ converges a.s. to $\log m-I(\theta x^{\ast })$, where $\log m-I(\theta x^{\ast })$ is a positive constant. In this work, we investigate its lower deviation, in other words, the convergence rates of $$\mathbb{P}\left(Z_n([\theta x^{\ast }n,\infty ))<e^{an}\right),$$ where $a\in [0,\log m-I(\theta x^{\ast }))$. Our results complete those in \cite{Mehmet}, \cite{Helower} and \cite{GWlower}.

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