Branching Random Walks on relatively hyperbolic groups (2211.07213v1)

Abstract: Let $\Gamma$ be a non-elementary relatively hyperbolic group with a finite generating set. Consider a finitely supported admissible and symmetric probability measure $\mu$ on $\Gamma$ and a probability measure $\nu$ on $\mathbb{N}$ with mean $r$. Let $\mathrm{BRW}(\Gamma,\nu,\mu)$ be the branching random walk on $\Gamma$ with offspring distribution $\nu$ and base motion given by the random walk with step distribution $\mu$. It is known that for $1 < r \leq R$ with $R$ the radius of convergence for the Green function of the random walk, the population of $\mathrm{BRW}(\Gamma,\nu,\mu)$ survives forever, but eventually vacates every finite subset of $\Gamma$. We prove that in this regime, the growth rate of the trace of the branching random walk is equal to the growth rate $\omega_\Gamma(r)$ of the Green function of the underlying random walk. We also prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set $\Lambda(r)$, which is the random subset of the Bowditch boundary consisting of all accumulation points of the trace of $\mathrm{BRW}(\Gamma,\nu,\mu)$, is equal to a constant times $\omega_\Gamma(r)$.