{ "id": "1607.05501", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-07-19T10:03:44.000Z", "updated": "2016-07-19T10:03:44.000Z", "title": "A short proof of the asymptotic of the minimum of the branching random walk after time $n$", "authors": [ "Bastien Mallein" ], "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We write $R_n$ for the minimal position attained after time $n$ by a branching random walk in the boundary case. In this article, we prove that $R_n - \\frac{1}{2} \\log n$ converges in law toward a shifted Gumbel distribution.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-07-19T10:03:44.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "branching random walk", "short proof", "asymptotic", "minimal position", "boundary case" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }