We give new formulas on the total number of born particles in the stable birth-and-assassination process, and prove that it has a heavy-tailed distribution. We also establish that this process is a scaling limit of a process of rumor scotching…

We give an alternative proof of a result by N. Gantert, Y. Hu and Z. Shi on the asymptotic behavior of the survival probability of the branching random walk killed below a linear boundary, in the special case of deterministic…

We derive the asymptotic behavior of the total occupation measure of the unit ball for super-Brownian motion started from the Dirac measure at a distant point and conditioned to hit the unit ball. In the critical dimension 4, we obtain…

We consider a branching random walk on $R$ with a killing barrier at zero. At criticality, the process becomes eventually extinct, and the total progeny $Z$ is therefore finite. We show that $P(Z>n)$ is of order  $(n\ln^2(n))^{-1}$, which confirms the…

We introduce a simple tree growth process that gives rise to a new two-parameter family of discrete fragmentation trees that extends Ford's alpha model to multifurcating trees and includes the trees obtained by uniform sampling from Duquesne and Le Gall's…

We study a branching Brownian motion (BBM) with absorption, in which particles move as Brownian motions with drift $-\rho$, undergo dyadic branching at rate $\beta>0$, and are killed on hitting the origin. In the case $\rho>\sqrt{2\beta}$ the extinction time for…

It is well known that a simple, supercritical Bienaymé-Galton-Watson process turns into a subcritical such process, if conditioned to die out. We prove that the corresponding holds true for general, multi-type branching, where child-bearing may occur at different ages, life…