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Almost sure convergence of measure-valued branching processes: a critical exponent

  • Alison M. Etheridge (a1)
Abstract

A large class of measure-valued critical branching processes can be classified in terms of a parameter ρ which arises as a measure of the recurrence of the underlying spatial Markov process. By establishing upper and lower bounds for the total weighted occupation time process, it is shown that if a measure-valued process is started from an invariant measure of its underlying spatial process, then a necessary and sufficient condition for (a.s.) local extinction is that ρ > 0.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics
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  • EISSN: 1473-7124
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