Asymptotic behavior of jump processes and applications for branching models

The aim of this work is to study the long time behavior of a branching particle model. More precisely, the particles move independently from each other following a Markov dynamics until the branching event. When one of these events occurs, the particle produces some random number of individuals whose position depends on the position of its mother and her number of offspring. In the first part of this thesis, we only study one particle line and we ignore the branching mechanism. So we are interested by the study of a Markov process which can jump, diffuse or be piecewise deterministic. The long time behavior of these hybrid processes is described with the notion of Wasserstein or coarse Ricci curvature. This notion of curvature, introduced by Joulin, Ollivier and Sammer, is more appropriate for the study of processes with jumps. We establish an expression of the gradient of the Markov semigroup of stochastically monotone processes which gives the curvature of these processes. Others sharp bounds of convergence, in Wasserstein distance and total variation distance, are also established. In the same way, we prove that if a Markov process evolves according to one of finitely many underlying Markovian dynamics, with a choice of dynamics that changes at the jump times of a second Markov process, then it is exponentially ergodic, under the assumption that the mean of the curvature of the underlying dynamics is positive. In the second part of the work, we study all the population. Its behaviour can be deduced to the study of the first part using a Girsavov-type transform which is called a many-to-one formula. Using this relation, we establish a law of large numbers and a macroscopic limit, in order to compare our results to the well know results on deterministic setting. Several examples, based on biology and computer science problems, illustrate our results, including the study of the largest individual in a size-structured population model

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Source https://theses.hal.science/tel-00862913
Author Cloez, Bertrand
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Last Updated May 6, 2026, 05:25 (UTC)
Created May 6, 2026, 05:25 (UTC)
Identifier NNT: 2013PEST1008
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contributor Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Mathématiques Appliquées (LAMA) ; Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM)-Fédération de Recherche Bézout (BEZOUT) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Cloez, Bertrand
date 2013-06-14T00:00:00
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