Extremes of Multi-type Branching Random Walks: Heaviest Tail Wins

Abstract

We consider a branching random walk on a multi($Q$)-type, supercritical Galton-Watson tree which satisfies Kesten-Stigum condition. We assume that the displacements associated with the particles of type $Q$ have regularly varying tails of index $\alpha$, while the other types of particles have lighter tails than that of particles of type $Q$. In this article, we derive the weak limit of the sequence of point processes associated with the positions of the particles in the $n^{th}$ generation. We verify that the limiting point process is a randomly scaled scale-decorated Poisson point process (SScDPPP) using the tools developed in \cite{bhattacharya:hazra:roy:2016}. As a consequence, we shall obtain the asymptotic distribution of the position of the rightmost particle in the $n^{th}$ generation.