Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Stable Point Processes, Branching Random Walks and a Prediction of Brunet and Derrida
STCS Seminar
Speaker:
Parthanil Roy (Indian Statistical Institute
Statistics and Mathematics Unit
203, Barrackpore Trunk Road
Kolkata 700108)
Organiser:
Sandeep K Juneja
Date:
Friday, 14 Aug 2015, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
AG-69
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Abstract:
Abstract: Stable point processes were introduced and characterized by Davydov, Molchanov and Zuyev (2008). They showed that such a point process can always be represented as a scale mixture of iid copies of one point process with the scaling points coming from an independent Poisson random measure. We obtain such a point process as the weak limit of a sequence of point processes induced by a branching random walk with jointly regularly varying displacements. In particular, we show that a prediction of two statistical physicists, Brunet and Derrida (2011), remains valid in this setup, and recover a slightly improved version of a result of Durrett (1983) (this talk is based on a joint work with Ayan Bhattacharya and Rajat Subhra Hazra).
| Speaker: | Parthanil Roy (Indian Statistical Institute Statistics and Mathematics Unit 203, Barrackpore Trunk Road Kolkata 700108) |
| Organiser: | Sandeep K Juneja |
| Date: | Friday, 14 Aug 2015, 16:00 to 17:00 |
| Venue: | AG-69 |
(Scan to add to calendar)
Abstract:
Abstract: Stable point processes were introduced and characterized by Davydov, Molchanov and Zuyev (2008). They showed that such a point process can always be represented as a scale mixture of iid copies of one point process with the scaling points coming from an independent Poisson random measure. We obtain such a point process as the weak limit of a sequence of point processes induced by a branching random walk with jointly regularly varying displacements. In particular, we show that a prediction of two statistical physicists, Brunet and Derrida (2011), remains valid in this setup, and recover a slightly improved version of a result of Durrett (1983) (this talk is based on a joint work with Ayan Bhattacharya and Rajat Subhra Hazra).