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Scaling limits of tree-valued branching random walks

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We consider a branching random walk (BRW) taking its values in the $\mathtt{b}$-ary rooted tree $\mathbb W_{ \mathtt{b}}$ (i.e. the set of finite words written in the alphabet $\{ 1, \ldots, \mathtt{b} \}$, with $\mathtt{b}\! \geq \! 2$). The BRW is indexed by a critical Galton--Watson tree conditioned to have $n$ vertices; its offspring distribution is aperiodic and is in the domain of attraction of a $\gamma$-stable law, $\gamma \in (1, 2]$. The jumps of the BRW are those of a {nearest-neighbour} null-recurrent random walk on $\mathbb W_{ \mathtt{b}}$ (reflection at the root of $\mathbb W_{ \mathtt{b}}$ and otherwise: probability $1/2$ to move closer to the root of $\mathbb W_{ \mathtt{b}}$ and probability $1/(2\mathtt{b})$ to move away from it to one of the $\mathtt{b}$ sites above). We denote by $\mathcal R_{\mathtt{b}} (n)$ the range of the BRW in $\mathbb W_{ \mathtt{b}}$ which is the set of all sites in $\mathbb W_{\mathtt{b}}$ visited by the BRW. We first prove a law of large numbers for $\# \mathcal R_{\mathtt{b}} (n)$ and we also prove that if we equip $\mathcal R_{\mathtt{b}} (n)$ (which is a random subtree of $\mathbb W_{\mathtt{b}}$) with its graph-distance $d_{\mathtt{gr}}$, then there exists a scaling sequence $(a_n)_{n\in \mathbb N}$ satisfying $a_n \! \rightarrow \! \infty$ such that the metric space $(\mathcal R_{\mathtt{b}} (n), a_n^{-1}d_{\mathtt{gr}})$, equipped with its normalised empirical measure, converges to the reflected Brownian cactus with $\gamma$-stable branching mechanism: namely, a random compact real tree that is a variant of the Brownian cactus introduced by N. Curien, J-F. Le Gall and G. Miermont.

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hal-03199916 , version 1 (16-04-2021)

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Thomas Duquesne, Robin Khanfir, Shen Lin, Torri Niccolo. Scaling limits of tree-valued branching random walks. Electronic Journal of Probability, 2022, 27 (16), pp.1-54. ⟨hal-03199916⟩
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