Traveling waves and homogeneous fragmentation

Details Traveling waves and homogeneous fragmentation Traveling waves and homogeneous fragmentation

2009-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/0911.5179v3

Annals of Applied Probability 2011, Vol. 21, No. 5, 1749-1794

Mathematics

Probability

Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AAP733 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Inst

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10.1214/10-AAP733

We formulate the notion of the classical Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piscounov (FKPP) reaction diffusion equation associated with a homogeneous conservative fragmentation process and study its traveling waves. Specifically, we establish existence, uniqueness and asymptotics. In the spirit of classical works such as McKean [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 28 (1975) 323-331] and [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 29 (1976) 553-554], Neveu [In Seminar on Stochastic Processes (1988) 223-242 Birkh\"{a}user] and Chauvin [Ann. Probab. 19 (1991) 1195-1205], our analysis exposes the relation between traveling waves and certain additive and multiplicative martingales via laws of large numbers which have been previously studied in the context of Crump-Mode-Jagers (CMJ) processes by Nerman [Z. Wahrsch. Verw. Gebiete 57 (1981) 365-395] and in the context of fragmentation processes by Bertoin and Martinez [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 37 (2005) 553-570] and Harris, Knobloch and Kyprianou [Ann. Inst. H. Poincar\'{e} Probab. Statist. 46 (2010) 119-134]. The conclusions and methodology presented here appeal to a number of concepts coming from the theory of branching random walks and branching Brownian motion (cf. Harris [Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 129 (1999) 503-517] and Biggins and Kyprianou [Electr. J. Probab. 10 (2005) 609-631]) showing their mathematical robustness even within the context of fragmentation theory.

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