Fixed points with finite mean of the smoothing transform in random environments
Probability
2019-08-06 v1
Abstract
At each time , let be a random sequence of non-negative numbers that are ultimately zero in a random environment in time, which satisfies for each and a.e. The existence and uniqueness of the non-negative fixed points of the associated smoothing transform in random environments is considered. These fixed points are solutions of the distributional equation for where when given the environment , are non-negative random variables, and distributed the same as . As an application, the martingale convergence of the branching random walk in random environments is given as well. The classical results by Biggins (1977) has been extended to the random environment situation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.01552,
title = {Fixed points with finite mean of the smoothing transform in random environments},
author = {Wenming Hong and Xiaoyue Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01552},
year = {2019}
}