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Structure of the Population of Particles for a Branching Random Walk in a Homogeneous Environment

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We consider a symmetric branching random walk in a multi-dimensional lattice with continuous time and Markov branching process at each lattice point. It is assumed that initially at each lattice point there is one particle and in the process of branching any particle can produce an arbitrary number of descendants. For a critical process, under the assumption that the walk is transient, we prove the convergence of the distribution of the particle field to the limit stationary distribution. We show the absence of intermittency in the zone \(|x-y| = O(\sqrt{t})\), where \(x\) and \(y\) are spatial coordinates and \(t\) is the time, under the assumption of superexponentially light tails of a random walk and a supercriticality of the branching process at the points of the lattice.

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The authors are grateful to Prof. S. A. Molchanov for useful discussions and to the referee for comments that helped to improve the presentation.

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This work is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 20-01-00487.

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Published in Russian in Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, 2022, Vol. 316, pp. 64–78 https://doi.org/10.4213/tm4248.

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Balashova, D.M., Yarovaya, E.B. Structure of the Population of Particles for a Branching Random Walk in a Homogeneous Environment. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 316, 57–71 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543822010060

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