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Reduced two-type decomposable critical branching processes with possibly infinite variance

Probability 2015-08-28 v1

Abstract

We consider a Galton-Watson process Z\mathbf{Z}% (n)=(Z_{1}(n),Z_{2}(n)) with two types of particles. Particles of type 2 may produce offspring of both types while particles of type 1 may produce particles of their own type only. Let Zi(m,n)Z_{i}(m,n) be the number of particles of type ii at time m<nm<n having offspring at time nn. Assuming that the process is critical and that the variance of the offspring distribution may be infinite we describe the asymptotic behavior, as m,nm,n\rightarrow \infty of the law of Z(m,n)=(Z1(m,n),Z2(m,n))\mathbf{Z}(m,n)=(Z_1(m,n),Z_2(m,n)) given Z(n)0\mathbf{Z}(n)\neq \mathbf{0}. We find three different types of coexistence of particles of both types. Besides, we describe, in the three cases, the distributions of the birth time and the type of the most recent common ancestor of individuals alive at time n.n\rightarrow \infty .

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@article{arxiv.1508.06653,
  title  = {Reduced two-type decomposable critical branching processes with possibly infinite variance},
  author = {Charline Smadi and Vladimir A. Vatutin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06653},
  year   = {2015}
}
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