Limit theorems for supercritical branching random fields with immigration

AbstractA measure-valued process which carries genealogical information is defined for a supercritical branching random field with immigration. This process counts the particles present at a final time whose ancestors had specified locations at given times in the past. A law of large numbers and a fluctuation limit theorem are proved for this process under a space-time scaling. The fluctuation limit is a nonstationary generalized Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. An example of interest in transport theory and polymer chemistry is given