Branching Random Walk in an inhomogeneous breeding potential

Abstract

We consider a continuous-time branching random walk in the inhomogeneous breeding potential $\beta|.|^p$, where $\beta > 0$, $p \geq 0$. We prove that the population almost surely explodes in finite time if $p > 1$ and doesn't explode if $p \leq 1$. In the non-explosive cases, we determine the asymptotic behaviour of the rightmost particle.