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We consider the maximal displacement of one dimensional branching Brownian motion with (macroscopically) time varying profiles. For monotone decreasing variances, we show that the correction from linear displacement is not logarithmic but rather proportional to T 1/3. We conjecture that this is the worse case correction possible.
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O. Zeitouni is partially supported by NSF grant #DMS-1106627 and by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation.
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Fang, M., Zeitouni, O. Slowdown for Time Inhomogeneous Branching Brownian Motion. J Stat Phys 149, 1–9 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-012-0581-z
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