SMILE

Stochastic Models for the Inference of Life Evolution

Fragmentations with Self-Similar Branching Speeds

Duchamps, J.

arXiv:1907.04712

2019

We consider fragmentation processes with values in the space of marked partitions of \$$\mathbb{N}\$$ , i.e. partitions where each block is decorated with a nonnegative real number. Assuming that the marks on distinct blocks evolve as independent positive self-similar Markov processes and determine the speed at which their blocks fragment, we get a natural generalization of the self-similar fragmentations of Bertoin (2002). Our main result is the characterization of these generalized fragmentation processes: a Lévy-Khinchin representation is obtained, using techniques from positive self-similar Markov processes and from classical fragmentation processes. We then give sufficient conditions for their absorption in finite time to a frozen state, and for the genealogical tree of the process to have finite total length.

Bibtex

@article{Duc19a,
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprinttype = {arxiv},
eprint = {1907.04712},
journal = {arXiv:1907.04712},
primaryClass = {math},
title = {Fragmentations with Self-Similar Branching Speeds},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04712},
urldate = {2019-07-11},
year = {2019},
keywords = {60G09; 60G18; 60J80; 60G51; 60J25},
author = {Duchamps, Jean-Jil}
}

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