Steady state and intermittency in the critical branching random walk with arbitrary total number of offspring

ABSTRACT For the critical branching random walk on the lattice , in the case of an arbitrary total number of produced offspring spreading on the lattice from the parental particle, the existence of a limit distribution (which corresponds to a steady state (or statistical equilibrium)) of the population is proved. If the second factorial moment of the total number of offspring is much larger than the square of the first factorial moment, then the limit particle field displays strong deviations from the uniformity: this is intermittency.