Abstract:
We consider critical symmetric branching random walks on a multidimensional
lattice with continuous time and with the source of particle birth and death
at the origin. We prove limit theorems on the distribution of the sojourn
time of the underlying random walk at a point depending on the lattice
dimension under the assumption of finite variance and under a condition
leading to infinite variance of jumps. We study the limit distribution of the
population of particles at the source for recurrent critical branching
random walks.
Keywords:branching random walk, multidimensional lattice, particle population distribution at a lattice point, variance of jumps, functional limit theorem, method of moments.