Branch-stationary max-stable fields on rooted trees

Abstract

In this contribution we study max-stable random fields on the rooted tree under shifts to descendant subtrees. Branch-Brown--Resnick stationarity is characterised through homogeneous spectral classes, punctured tail measures, and local spectral tail fields. For lognormal representers, it is equivalent to invariance of the variogram under addition of a common prefix. We give Gaussian, max-autoregressive, regenerative cascade, and free-group cluster constructions, and show that summability on countably branching trees need not satisfy a zero--one law. We also derive the associated branch-invariant extreme-value and Archimax copulas.