Random Walks and Branching Processes in Correlated Gaussian Environment

We study persistence probabilities for random walks in correlated Gaussian random environment investigated by Oshanin et al. (Phys Rev Lett, 110:100602, 2013). From the persistence results, we can deduce properties of critical branching processes with offspring sizes geometrically distributed with correlated random parameters. More precisely, we obtain estimates on the tail distribution of its total population size, of its maximum population, and of its extinction time.