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Reduced critical processes for small populations

Probability 2018-01-11 v1

Abstract

Let {Z(n),n1}\left\{ Z(n),n\geq 1\right\} be a critical Galton-Watson branching process with finite variance for the offspring size of particles. Assuming that 0<Z(n)φ(n)0<Z(n)\leq \varphi (n), where either φ(n)=an\varphi (n)=an for some a>0a>0 or φ(n)=o(n)\varphi (n)=o(n) as nn\rightarrow \infty , we study the structure of the process % \left\{ Z(m,n),0\leq m\leq n\right\} , where Z(m,n)Z(m,n) is the number of particles in the process at moment mnm\leq n having a positive number of descendants at moment nn.

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@article{arxiv.1801.03217,
  title  = {Reduced critical processes for small populations},
  author = {Minzhi Liu and Vladimir Vatutin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.03217},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages

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