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Subcritical branching processes in random environment with immigration: survival of a single family

Probability 2020-09-09 v1

Abstract

We consider a subcritical branching process in an i.i.d. random environment, in which one immigrant arrives at each generation. We consider the event % \mathcal{A}_{i}(n) that all individuals alive at time nn are offspring of the immigrant which joined the population at time ii and investigate the asymptotic probability of this extreme event when nn\to\infty and ii is either fixed, or the difference nin-i is fixed, or min(i,ni).\min(i,n-i)\to\infty. To deduce the desired asymptotics we establish some limit theorems for random walks conditioned to be nonnegative or negative.

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@article{arxiv.2009.03672,
  title  = {Subcritical branching processes in random environment with immigration: survival of a single family},
  author = {E. E. Dyakonova and V. A. Vatutin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.03672},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

20 pages, 14 references. To be published in Theory of Probability and its Applications, 65(4), 2020. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1911.00316