%0 Journal Article %T Weak convergence for the minimal position in a branching random walk: a simple proof %A Elie Aidekon %A Zhan Shi %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X Consider the boundary case in a one-dimensional super-critical branching random walk. It is known that upon the survival of the system, the minimal position after $n$ steps behaves in probability like ${3\over 2} \log n$ when $n\to \infty$. We give a simple and self-contained proof of this result, based exclusively on elementary properties of sums of i.i.d. real-valued random variables. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1266v2