Worst-case T1/3T^{1/3} correction conjecture for time-inhomogeneous branching Brownian motion

For one-dimensional branching Brownian motion with a smooth diffusivity profile σ:[0,1](0,)\sigma:[0,1]\to(0,\infty) whose image is contained in a compact subset of (0,)(0,\infty), let vσv_\sigma be the velocity determined by the paper's equation (eq-vsn13a), and let gσ(T)g_\sigma(T) denote the correction term in the displacement asymptotic (eq-dispn13). Worst-case correction conjecture. The displacement asymptotic holds with this vσv_\sigma and

gσ(T)=O(T1/3).|g_\sigma(T)|=O(T^{1/3}).

The authors motivate the conjecture by observing that strictly decreasing diffusivity appears to produce a correction of order T1/3T^{1/3}, rather than the logarithmic correction of homogeneous branching Brownian motion; they propose that this is the worst possible correction order. The conjecture is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Ming Fang and Ofer Zeitouni, “Slowdown for time inhomogeneous branching Brownian motion”, arXiv:1205.1769 (2012).

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