Long-time asymptotic of stable Dawson-Watanabe processes in supercritical regimes
Khoa L\^e

TL;DR
This paper investigates the long-time behavior of supercritical alpha-stable Dawson-Watanabe processes, revealing that their local properties are governed by the asymptotics of the total mass, with detailed asymptotic expansions.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive analysis of the asymptotic behavior of Dawson-Watanabe processes in supercritical regimes, including all orders of asymptotics for functionals.
Findings
Long-time asymptotics of $W_t(f)$ are fully characterized.
Local behavior depends on the asymptotics of total mass $W_t(1)$.
Results apply to processes with initial measures having finite positive moments.
Abstract
Let be a supercritical -stable Dawson-Watanabe process (with ) and be a test function in the domain of satisfying some integrability condition. Assuming the initial measure has a finite positive moment, we determine the long-time asymptotic of all orders of . In particular, it is shown that the local behavior of in long-time is completely determined by the asymptotic of the total mass , a global characteristic.
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Long-time asymptotic of stable Dawson-Watanabe processes in supercritical regimes
Khoa Lê
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2G1 Canada
(Date: May 30, 2017)
Abstract.
Let be a supercritical -stable Dawson-Watanabe process (with ) and be a test function in the domain of satisfying some integrability condition. Assuming the initial measure has a finite positive moment, we determine the long-time asymptotic of all orders of . In particular, it is shown that the local behavior of in long-time is completely determined by the asymptotic of the total mass , a global characteristic.
Key words and phrases:
Dawson-Watanabe process; -stable process
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
Primary 60J68, 60F15; Secondary 60G52
The author thanks PIMS for its support through the Postdoctoral Training Centre in Stochastics.
1. Introduction
Let be a Dawson-Watanabe process starting from a finite measure with motion generator on () and linear growth . More precisely, is a measure-valued Markov process such that the process
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is a martingale with quadratic variation for all . The law of is denoted by . Throughout the paper, we assume that the initial measure has a finite positive moment, that is
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The case when is known as supercritical branching regime. The cases and are known respectively as subcritical and critical branching regimes which, however, are not considered in the current article. For a fixed test function with sufficient regularity and integrability, we investigate the long-time asymptotic of in supercritical branching regimes. To state the main result precisely, we prepare some notation. For each multi-index and , we denote
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and define the constant and the -finite signed measure on respectively by
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Obviously is the Lebesgue measure . In supercritical regimes (), it is well-known that the limit exists almost surely and is a well-defined random variable. We denote .
Theorem 1.1**.**
Let be a non-negative integer and be a function in satisfying
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Then, with -probability one,
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Written another way, we have
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where almost surely.
Herein, denotes the domain of the weak generator of the -stable process (see the following section for a precise definition). Theorem 1.1 extends results of Kouritzin and Ren [MR3131303] in which the first order asymptotic () was identified. For a heuristic explanation of long-time limits of supercritical superprocesses and their connection with strong laws of large numbers, we refer to [kouritzin2016laws]*Section 2 and [kl2017FV]*Subsection 2.2.
The higher order asymptotic expansions (1.5) and (1.6) are obtained by combining the method initiated by Asmussen and Hering [MR0420889] and an asymptotic expansion of the -stable semigroup (see Proposition 4.1 below). When is replaced by the generator of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, similar results have been obtained by Adamczak and Miłoś [MR3339862]. In such case, because of the exponential rates in the expansion of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup, convergences in distribution are expected in the asymptotic of high orders (which are called central limit theorems). On the other hand, the rates in the asymptotic expansion of the -stable semigroup are those of polynomials (see (4.24) below) and are negligible under the exponential growing expected total mass , which leads to almost sure limits in the asymptotic of all high orders. In view of Theorem 1.1, it is interesting to observe that the local behavior of in long time is completely determined by the asymptotic of the total mass , which is a global characteristic.
We conclude the introduction with an outline of the article. Section 2 reviews the martingale formulations of Dawson-Watanabe processes. In Section 3, we investigate the long-time asymptotic of against some special test functions. The proof of Theorem 1.1 is presented in Section 4.
2. Martingale formulations
We use and to denote for a measure and an integrable function . Let be the semigroup corresponding to a symmetric -stable process acting on , the space of bounded Borel measurable functions on . In particular, for every ,
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where is the probability transition kernel
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Let denote the Fourier transform of with the normalization . Using Fourier transform, takes a simpler form
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The weak domain of , denoted by , is the collection of all functions in such that the limit
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exists pointwise and is a bounded measurable function on . If belongs to , we denote the above limit by .
We define and . It follows from (1.1) and Itô formula that for every
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Note that is a martingale with quadratic variation
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The measure-valued process can be considered as a worthy martingale measure (cf. [MR876085]) with dominating measure . In this sense, for every deterministic function and satisfying
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one can define the stochastic integration such that is a martingale with quadratic variation
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It follows that (see [MR1915445]*pg. 167) for every
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which is called the Green function representation. From (2.12), one derives the following two important identities
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and
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which are valid for all and . The following estimate is intrinsic to supercritical regimes and plays a central role in our approach.
Lemma 2.1**.**
For every and , we have
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Proof.
From (2.13), (2.11) and (2.14)
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We observe that by Jensen’s inequality and . Hence, . It follows that
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which yields the result. ∎
3. Characteristic martingales
For every , we denote , and and recall the assumption (1.2) on and the definition of in (1.3). We investigate the long-time asymptotic of .
Lemma 3.1**.**
For every ,
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Proof.
For each , is a complex valued martingale whose real and imaginary parts have quadratic variations satisfying
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Together with martingale maximal inequality, we see that
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Hence, using the elementary identity and (2.14), we obtain
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Note that for every
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These estimates and (1.2) implies the result. ∎
Lemma 3.2**.**
* converges almost surely and in the mean-square sense to limit for each . In addition, the following relation holds*
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Proof.
Using (3.15) we have
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which together with (2.14) implies . Hence, by the martingale convergence theorem, exists almost surely and in mean-square sense for each . The relation (3.16) follows from here (by setting ) and the relation (2.12) with . ∎
Proposition 3.3**.**
Let for some . With -probability one, we have for every that
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Proof.
It suffices to restrict on the event . We note that for every function , by Fubini’s theorem,
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Hence,
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In addition, from (2.10), we obtain
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It follows that
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where
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Applying Lemma 3.2, we see that
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We will show that
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By a change of variable, we have
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This, together with dominated convergence theorem yields (3.21). For , we observe that
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Hence,
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which due to sublinearity of immediately implies the first assertion in (3.22). For , putting and utilizing the Borel-Cantelli lemma, we merely need to show
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Set and note that
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By Jensen’s inequality, we have
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Applying Lemma 3.1, we see that
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Observing that , and for any , the above estimate implies (3.23).
Finally, combining (3.19), (3.20), (3.21) and (3.22) yields
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The equality (3.17) follows from the above relation and (3.16), after observing that is a real number. ∎
4. Proof of the main result
We begin with an asymptotic expansion of as . If is a multi-index and is a sufficiently smooth test function, we define . The following semigroup expansion is proved in [kl2017FV]*Proposition 3.2.
Proposition 4.1** (Semigroup expansion).**
Let be a measurable function on and be a non-negative integer such that (1.4) holds. Then, we have
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Remark 4.2**.**
For semigroups with discrete spectra such as the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck semigroup, similar asymptotic expansions can be obtained via spectral decompositions. Although the -stable semigroup does not belong to this class, such expansion can be obtained using Taylor’s expansion. We refer to [kl2017FV] for a proof of the above result.
Set for some sufficiently small so that
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We first show that the sequence determines the long-time asymptotic of .
Lemma 4.3**.**
For every , we have
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Proof.
We observe that
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where
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Hence, it suffices to show almost surely. Indeed, we have
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Since , we see that
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which converges to 0 because of the range of in (4.25). In addition,
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Hence, almost surely. For , we observe from (2.13) that for every ,
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Fixing and applying martingale maximal inequality as well as (2.11) and (2.14), we have
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As in the proof of Lemma 2.1, an application of Jensen’s inequality gives
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It follows that and, hence . Applying Borel-Cantelli lemma, we find that almost surely. can be treated analogously as . Indeed, we have
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By triangle inequality, we see that is at most
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which converges to 0 by (4.27) and (4.25). In conjunction with (4.28), these estimates imply that almost surely. ∎
Proof of Theorem 1.1.
We are going to obtain the limit (1.5) along the sequence . We put and
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We will show that
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From Lemma 2.1, we see that
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This implies that
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An application of Borel-Cantelli lemma yields
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In addition,
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We note that and (by (4.24)). It follows that
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which together with (4.31) implies (4.30). More precisely, we have shown
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Applying Proposition 3.3, we see that for every ,
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Combining these limits together yields
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Applying Lemma 4.3, we find that the above limit implies (1.5). ∎
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