2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/69208The Brownian web (BW) is the random network formally consisting of the paths of coalescing one-dimensional Brownian motions starting from every space-time point in R\timesR. We extend the earlier work of Arratia and of Toth and Werner by providing a new characterization which is then used to obtain convergence results for the BW distribution, including convergence of the system of all coalescing random walks to the BW under diffusive space-time scaling.Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009117904000000568 in the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)Probability60K35, 60J65, 60F17, 82B41, 60D05 (Primary)The Brownian web: Characterization and convergencetext