Penalization of Galton-Watson processes
Probability
2018-03-29 v1
Abstract
We apply the penalization technique introduced by Roynette, Vallois, Yor for Brownian motion to Galton-Watson processes with a penalizing function of the form where P is a polynomial of degree p and s [0, 1]. We prove that the limiting martingales obtained by this method are most of the time classical ones, except in the super-critical case for s = 1 (or s 1) where we obtain new martingales. If we make a change of probability measure with this martingale, we obtain a multi-type Galton-Watson tree with p distinguished infinite spines.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.10611,
title = {Penalization of Galton-Watson processes},
author = {Romain Abraham and Pierre Debs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10611},
year = {2018}
}