Strong survival and extinction for multitype branching processes via a new order for generating functions
Abstract
We consider general discrete-time multitype branching processes on a countable set . According to these processes, a particle of type generates a random number of children and chooses their type in , not necessarily independently nor with the same law for different parent types. We introduce a new type of stochastic ordering of multitype branching processes, generalizing the germ order introduced by Hutchcroft in arXiv:2011.06402, which relies on the generating function of the process. We prove that given two multitype branching processes with law and respectively, with , then in every set where there is survival according to , there is survival also according to . Moreover, in every set where there is strong survival according to , there is strong survival also according to , provided that the supremum of the global extinction probabilities, for the -process, taken over all starting points , is strictly smaller than 1. New conditions for survival and strong survival for inhomogeneous multitype branching processes are provided. We also extend a result of Moyal which claims that, under some conditions, the global extinction probability for a multitype branching process is the only fixed point of its generating function, whose supremum over all starting coordinates may be smaller than 1.
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@article{arxiv.2403.01565,
title = {Strong survival and extinction for multitype branching processes via a new order for generating functions},
author = {Daniela Bertacchi and Fabio Zucca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01565},
year = {2025}
}
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23 pages