Brownian web paths from a random space time point. The introduction of this topology allowed them to prove the convergence of the coalescing random walks to a unique limiting object and characterize it. They named this limiting object Brownian web. An extension of the Brownian web, called the Brownian net, has been introduced by Sun and Swart by allowing the coalescing Brownian motions to undergo branching. An alternative construction of the Brownian net was given by Newman, Ravishankar and Schertzer. For a recent survey, see Schertzer, Sun and Swart. Brownian web In probability theory, the Brownian web is an uncountable collection of
Brownian excursion Brownian excursion In probability theory a Brownian excursion process is a stochastic process that is closely related to a Wiener process (or Brownian motion). Realisations of Brownian excursion processes are essentially just realizations of a Wiener process selected to satisfy certain conditions. In particular, a Brownian excursion process is a Wiener process conditioned to be positive and to take the value 0 at time 1. Alternatively, it is a Brownian bridge process conditioned to be positive. BEPs are important because, among other reasons, they naturally arise as the limit process of a number of conditional functional central limit theorems. A