Abstract
Supercritical branching processes in constant environment conditioned on eventual extinction are known to be subcritical branching processes. The case of random environment is more subtle. A supercritical branching diffusion in random environment (BDRE) conditioned on eventual extinction of the population is not a branching diffusion in a homogeneous environment. However the law of the population size of a supercritical BDRE (averaged over the environment) conditioned on eventual extinction is equal to the law of the population size of a subcritical BDRE (averaged over the environment). As a consequence, supercritical BDREs have a phase transition which is similar to a well-known phase transition of subcritical branching processes in random environment.
Citation
Martin Hutzenthaler. "Supercritical branching diffusions in random environment." Electron. Commun. Probab. 16 781 - 791, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v16-1685
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