Conjecture on stable fluctuations of the minimum in branching Brownian motion

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Let Mt=minuN(t)Xu(t)M_t=\min_{u\in\mathcal{N}(t)}X_u(t) be the minimum position in branching Brownian motion, let ZZ_\infty be the derivative-martingale limit, and let GG be a standard Gumbel random variable. Let (St)t0(S_t)_{t\geq0} be a Cauchy process, and assume that ZZ_\infty, GG, and (St)t0(S_t)_{t\geq0} are independent.

Conjecture on the minimum. As tt\to\infty, for some constant C>0C>0,

Mt=law32logtlog(CZ)G+1tSZ+o\originalleft(1t\aftergroup\originalright).M_t\stackrel{\mathrm{law}}{=}\frac{3}{2}\log t-\log(CZ_\infty)-G+\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}S_{Z_\infty}+o\mathopen{}\mathclose\bgroup\originalleft(\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}\aftergroup\egroup\originalright).

This predicts a refined fluctuation expansion for the minimum beyond its usual logarithmic order. The authors state that a formal formulation should use mod-ϕ\phi-convergence; the conjecture is presented as a direction for future work and remains open in the supplied source.

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Primary source

Pascal Maillard and Michel Pain, “1-stable fluctuations in branching Brownian motion at critical temperature I: the derivative martingale”, arXiv:1806.05152 (2018).

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