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Conditions for recurrence and transience for time-inhomogeneous birth-and-death processes

Probability 2023-05-11 v3

Abstract

We derive the conditions for recurrence and transience for time-inhomogeneous birth-and-death processes considered as random walks with positively biased drifts. We establish a general result, from which the earlier known particular results by Menshikov and Volkov [Electron. J. Probab., 13 (2008), paper No. 31, 944--960] follow.

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@article{arxiv.2212.01722,
  title  = {Conditions for recurrence and transience for time-inhomogeneous birth-and-death processes},
  author = {Vyacheslav M. Abramov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.01722},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Minor corrections are made. The paper is accepted for publication in "Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society"