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Teoriya Veroyatnostei i ee Primeneniya, 1993, Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 624–629
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Short Communications
The total number of particles in a reduced Bellman–Harris branching process
V. A. Vatutin Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract:
Let $z(t)$ be the number of particles at time $t$ in a Bellman-Harris branching process with generating function $f(s)$ of the number of direct descendants and distribution $G(t)$ of particle lifelength satisfying the conditions $$
f'(1) = 1,\qquad f(s) = s + (1 - s)^{1 + \alpha } L(1 - s),
$$
where $\alpha \in ( {0,1} ]$, the function $L(x)$ varies slowly as $x \to 0 + $, and
$$
\lim_{n \to \infty }\frac{{n( {1 - G(n))}}} {{1 - f_n( 0 )}} = 0,
$$
where $f_n ( s )$ is the $n$th iteration of $f(s)$. Denote by $\{ z(\tau ,t), 0 \le \tau \le t\}$ the corresponding reduced Bellman-Harris branching process, where $z(\tau ,t)$ is the number of particles in the initial process at time $\tau $ whose descendants or they themselves are alive at time $t$. Let $\nu (t)$ be the number of dead particles of the reduced process to time $t$. The paper finds the limiting distribution of $\nu(t)$ under the conditions $z(t) > 0$ and $t \to \infty $.
Keywords:
critical Bellman–Harris branching process, reduced branching process, the total number of particles, limiting distributions.
Received: 01.10.1991
Citation:
V. A. Vatutin, “The total number of particles in a reduced Bellman–Harris branching process”, Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 38:3 (1993), 624–629; Theory Probab. Appl., 38:3 (1993), 567–571
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