A new approximation of the Height process of a CSBP

Abstract

We code Galton-Walton trees by a continuous height process, in order to give a precise meaning to the convergence of forests of trees. This allows us to establish the convergence of the forest of genealogical trees of the branching process of a large population towards the genealogical trees of the limiting continuous state branching process (CSBP). The approximation considered here is new, compared to that which has been studied in Etienne Pardoux.