2021/06/01 by Mehmet Öz, Öz, Mehmet
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · #60F10 #60F15 #60J80 #60K37 #Diffusion and Search Dynamics #FOS: Mathematics #Point processes and geometric inequalities #Probability (math.PR) #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2106.00575
openalex publication_date 2021/06/01 · openalex created_date 2023/07/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We first study a d-dimensional branching Brownian motion (BBM) among mild Poissonian obstacles, where a random trap field in ℝd is created via a Poisson point process. The trap field consists of balls of fixed radius centered at the atoms of the Poisson point process. The mild obstacle rule is that when particles are inside traps, they branch at a lower rate, which is allowed to be zero, whereas when outside traps they branch at the normal rate. We prove upper bounds on the large-deviation probabilities for the total mass of BBM among mild obstacles, which we then use along with the Borel-Cantelli lemma to prove the corresponding strong law of large numbers. Our results are quenched, that is, they hold in almost every environment with respect to the Poisson point process. Our strong law improves on the existing corresponding weak law in [6]. Then, we study a d-dimensional BBM inside subdiffusively expanding balls, where the boundary of the ball is deactivating in the sense that once a particle of the BBM hits the moving boundary, it is instantly deactivated but can be reactivated at a later time provided its ancestral line is fully inside the expanding ball at that later time. We obtain a large-deviation result as time tends to infinity on the probability that the mass inside the ball is aytpically small. An essential ingredient in the proofs of the mild obstacle problem turns out to be the large-deviation result on the mass of BBM inside expanding balls.