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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 P(x)sxP (x)s^x where P is a polynomial of degree p and s \in [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 \rightarrow 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}
}
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