Thomas Hughes (McGill)
Title: Hit and miss with the (α,β)-superprocess
Abstract: The (α,β)-superprocess is a spatial branching model associated to an α-stable spatial motion and a (1+β)-stable branching mechanism. It is a measure-valued Markov process. In this talk we consider the random density in the absolutely continuous regime. After introducing this process and some classical results, I will discuss some newly proven path properties of the density. These include (i) strict positivity of the density at a fixed time (for certain parameters) and (ii) a classification of the measures which the density charges almost surely when conditioned on survival. The duality between the superprocess and a fractional parabolic PDE is central to our method, and I will discuss how the probabilistic statements above correspond to new results about singular solutions to the PDE.
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Meeting ID: 970 9325 9428
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