Stability of (sub)critical non-local spatial branching processes with and without immigration

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability and limiting behaviors of non-local branching processes with and without immigration, providing new conditions for convergence and extending classical results to more general non-local mechanisms.

Contribution

It establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for stability and convergence in non-local branching processes, generalizing previous work and removing bounded offspring restrictions.

Findings

Proves asymptotic survival probability and Yaglom limit for critical processes.

Shows convergence to Gamma distribution under integral conditions.

Demonstrates stability in subcritical processes with integral criteria.

Abstract

We consider the setting of either a general non-local branching particle process or a general non-local superprocess, in both cases, with and without immigration. Under the assumption that the mean semigroup has a Perron-Frobenious type behaviour for the immigrated mass, as well as the existence of second moments, we consider necessary and sufficient conditions that ensure limiting distributional stability. More precisely, our first main contribution pertains to proving the asymptotic Kolmogorov survival probability and Yaglom limit for critical non-local branching particle systems and superprocesses under a second moment assumption on the offspring distribution. Our results improve on existing literature by removing the requirement of bounded offspring in the particle setting [21] and generalising [43] to allow for non-local branching mechanisms. Our second main contribution pertains to the stability of both critical and sub-critical non-local branching particle systems and superprocesses with immigration. At criticality, we show that the scaled process converges to a Gamma distribution under a necessary and sufficient integral test. At subcriticality we show stability of the process, also subject to an integral test. In these cases, our results complement classical results for (continuous-time) Galton-Watson processes with immigration and continuous-state branching processes with immigration; see [22,40,42,48,51], among others. In the setting of superprocesses, the only work we know of at this level of generality is summarised in [34]. The proofs of our results, both with and without immigration, appeal to similar technical approaches and accordingly, we include the results together in this paper.