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Strong survival and extinction for multitype branching processes via a new order for generating functions

Probability 2025-07-28 v6

Abstract

We consider general discrete-time multitype branching processes on a countable set XX. According to these processes, a particle of type xXx\in X generates a random number of children and chooses their type in XX, 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 μ\mathbf{\mu} and ν\mathbf{\nu} respectively, with μν\mathbf{\mu}\ge\mathbf{\nu}, then in every set where there is survival according to mathbfν\\mathbf{\nu}, there is survival also according to μ\mathbf{\mu}. Moreover, in every set where there is strong survival according to ν\mathbf{\nu}, there is strong survival also according to μ\mathbf{\mu}, provided that the supremum of the global extinction probabilities, for the ν\mathbf{\nu}-process, taken over all starting points xx, 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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