Height and contour processes of Crump-Mode-Jagers forests (II): The Bellman-Harris universality class

2018/07/24 by Schertzer, E., Simatos, F.
#FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1807.09067

Abstract

Crump-Mode-Jagers (CMJ) trees generalize Galton-Watson trees by allowing individuals to live for an arbitrary duration and give birth at arbitrary times during their life-time. In this paper, we exhibit a simple condition under which the height and contour processes of CMJ forests belong to the universality class of Bellman-Harris processes. This condition formalizes an asymptotic independence between the chronological and genealogical structures. We show that it is satisfied by a large class of CMJ processes and in particular, quite surprisingly, by CMJ processes with a finite variance offspring distribution. Along the way, we prove a general tightness result.

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