# Extreme Level Sets of Branching Brownian Motion

#### Lisa Hartung (Courant Institute)

Thursday, October 18, 2018 -
3:15pm to 4:15pm
Location:
119 Physics

Branching Brownian motion is a classical process in probability theory belonging to the class of Log-correlated random fields. We study the structure of extreme level sets of this process, namely the sets of particles whose height is within a fixed distance from the order of the global maximum. It is well known that such particles congregate at large times in clusters of order-one genealogical diameter around local maxima which form a Cox process in the limit. We add to these results by finding the asymptotic size of extreme level sets and the typical height and shape of those clusters which carry such level sets. We also find the right tail decay of the distribution of the distance between the two highest particles. These results confirm two conjectures of Brunet and Derrida.(joint work with A. Cortines, O Louidor)

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