Skeleton decomposition and law of large numbers for supercritical superprocesses

TL;DR

This paper develops skeleton and spine decompositions for superprocesses with symmetric Hunt process motions and establishes law of large numbers results, extending previous work to broader classes of superprocesses.

Contribution

It introduces skeleton and spine decompositions for general symmetric Hunt process superprocesses and derives law of large numbers under spectral gap conditions.

Findings

Established skeleton and spine decompositions for superprocesses.

Proved weak and strong law of large numbers for supercritical superprocesses.

Extended law of large numbers results to broader classes including super Ornstein-Uhlenbeck and stable-like processes.

Abstract

The goal of this paper has two-folds. First, we establish skeleton and spine decompositions for superprocesses whose underlying processes are general symmetric Hunt processes. Second, we use these decompositions to obtain weak and strong law of large numbers for supercritical superprocesses where the spatial motion is a symmetric Hunt process on a locally compact metric space $E$ and the branching mechanism takes the form $$\psi_{\beta}(x,\lambda)=-\beta(x)\lambda+\alpha(x)\lambda^{2}+\int_{(0,{\infty})}(e^{-\lambda y}-1+\lambda y)\pi(x,dy)$$ with $\beta\in\mathcal{B}_{b}(E)$, $\alpha\in \mathcal{B}^{+}_{b}(E)$ and $\pi$ being a kernel from $E$ to $(0,{\infty})$ satisfying $\sup_{x\in E}\int_{(0,{\infty})} (y\wedge y^{2}) \pi(x,dy)<{\infty}$. The limit theorems are established under the assumption that an associated Schr\"{o}dinger operator has a spectral gap. Our results cover many interesting examples of superprocesses, including super Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process and super stable-like process. The strong law of large numbers for supercritical superprocesses are obtained under the assumption that the strong law of large numbers for an associated supercritical branching Markov process holds along a discrete sequence of times, extending an earlier result of Eckhoff, Kyprianou and Winkel [Ann. Probab.,43(5), 2594--2659, 2015] for superdiffusions to a large class of superprocesses. The key for such a result is due to the skeleton decomposition of superprocess, which represents a superprocess as an immigration process along a supercritical branching Markov process.