Spine decomposition and $L\log L$ criterion for superprocesses with non-local branching mechanisms

TL;DR

This paper develops a spine decomposition for superprocesses with local and non-local branching, providing criteria for martingale limits and extinction properties, extending previous results to more general mechanisms.

Contribution

It introduces a pathwise spine decomposition for superprocesses with non-local branching, expanding the theoretical framework beyond purely local mechanisms.

Findings

Derived necessary and sufficient conditions for non-degenerate martingale limits.

Established extinction criteria for superprocesses with non-local branching.

Proved an $L ext{log}L$ criterion for the fundamental martingale.

Abstract

In this paper, we provide a pathwise spine decomposition for superprocesses with both local and non-local branching mechanisms under a martingale change of measure. This result complements the related results obtained in Evans (1993), Kyprianou et al. (2012) and Liu, Ren and Song (2009) for superprocesses with purely local branching mechanisms and in Chen, Ren and Song (2016) and Kyprianou and Palau (2016) for multitype superprocesses. As an application of this decomposition, we obtain necessary/sufficient conditions for the limit of the fundamental martingale to be non-degenerate. In particular, we obtain extinction properties of superprocesses with non-local branching mechanisms as well as a Kesten-Stigum $L\log L$ theorem for the fundamental martingale.