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Reduced branching processes with very heavy tails

Probability 2007-10-16 v1

Abstract

The reduced Markov branching process is a stochastic model for the genealogy of an unstructured biological population. Its limit behavior in the critical case is well studied for the Zolotarev-Slack regularity parameter α(0,1]\alpha\in(0,1]. We turn to the case of very heavy tailed reproduction distribution α=0\alpha=0 assuming Zubkov's regularity condition with parameter β(0,)\beta\in(0,\infty). Our main result gives a new asymptotic pattern for the reduced branching process conditioned on non-extinction during a long time interval.

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@article{arxiv.0710.2755,
  title  = {Reduced branching processes with very heavy tails},
  author = {Andreas N. Lagerås and Serik Sagitov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.2755},
  year   = {2007}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure

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