Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics

Finite-size corrections to the speed of a branching-selection process

Abstract

We consider a particle system studied by E. Brunet and B. Derrida (Phys. Rev. E 70 (2004) 016106), which evolves according to a branching mechanism with selection of the fittest keeping the population size fixed and equal to $N$. The particles remain grouped and move like a travelling front driven by a random noise with a deterministic speed. Because of its mean-field structure, the model can be further analysed as $N\to\infty$. We focus on the case where the noise lies in the max-domain of attraction of the Weibull extreme value distribution and show that under mild conditions the correction to the speed has universal features depending on the tail probabilities.

Article information

Source
Braz. J. Probab. Stat., Volume 31, Number 3 (2017), 476-501.

Dates
Accepted: October 2016
First available in Project Euclid: 22 August 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1503388825

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/16-BJPS342

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3693977

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1377.82027

Citation

Comets, Francis; Cortines, Aser. Finite-size corrections to the speed of a branching-selection process. Braz. J. Probab. Stat. 31 (2017), no. 3, 476--501. doi:10.1214/16-BJPS342. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bjps/1503388825

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