Branching Brownian motion with absorption and the all-time minimum of branching Brownian motion with drift

We give descriptions of the family ωs,s∈[0,s0] through the single pair of functions ω0(x) and ωs0(x), as extremal solutions of the Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov (KPP) travelling wave equation on the half-line, through a martingale representation, and as a single explicit series expansion. We also obtain a precise result concerning the tail behaviour of K(∞). In addition, in the regime where K(∞)>0 almost surely, we show that u(x,t):=Px(K(t)=0) suitably centred converges to the KPP critical travelling wave on the whole real line.