Maximal displacement of a branching random walk in time-inhomogeneous environment
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Consider a branching random walk evolving in a macroscopic time-inhomogeneous environment, that scales with the length n of the process under study. We compute the first two terms of the asymptotic of the maximal displacement at time n. The coefficient of the first (ballistic) order is obtained as the solution of an optimization problem, while the second term, of order n, comes from time-inhomogeneous random walk estimates, that may be of independent interest. This result partially answers a conjecture of Fang and Zeitouni. Same techniques are used to obtain the asymptotic of other quantities, such as the consistent maximal displacement.
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