{ "id": "1101.1810", "version": "v6", "published": "2011-01-10T13:40:38.000Z", "updated": "2013-11-06T15:15:28.000Z", "title": "Convergence in law of the minimum of a branching random walk", "authors": [ "Elie Aïdékon" ], "comment": "Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOP750 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) Compared to the published version, we extended our result to the case of an infinite number of children. To this end, we added Corollary 3.5 and slightly changed the proof of Theorem 1.1. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1107.2543 by other authors", "journal": "Annals of Probability 2013, Vol. 41, No. 3A, 1362-1426", "doi": "10.1214/12-AOP750", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We consider the minimum of a super-critical branching random walk. Addario-Berry and Reed [Ann. Probab. 37 (2009) 1044-1079] proved the tightness of the minimum centered around its mean value. We show that a convergence in law holds, giving the analog of a well-known result of Bramson [Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1983) iv+190] in the case of the branching Brownian motion.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v6", "updated": "2013-11-06T15:15:28.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "convergence", "super-critical branching random walk", "mean value", "law holds", "well-known result" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1101.1810A" } } }