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The present paper extends the earlier results obtained by Abramov [`Conditions for recurrence and transience for time-inhomogeneous birth-and-death processes' \emph{Bull. Aust. Math. Soc.} \textbf{109} (2024), 393--402] for the case of…
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Based on the framework of Plamen Iliev, multivariate Meixner polynomials are constructed explicitly as Birth and Death polynomials. They form the complete set of eigenpolynomials of a birth and death process with the birth and death rates…
Given a birth-death process on $\mathbb {N}$ with semigroup $(P_t)_{t\geq0}$ and a discrete gradient ${\partial}_u$ depending on a positive weight $u$, we establish intertwining relations of the form ${\partial}_uP_t=Q_t\,{\partial}_u$,…
We consider quantum random walks (QRW) on the integers, a subject that has been considered in the last few years in the framework of quantum computation. We show how the theory of CMV matrices gives a natural tool to study these processes…
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In this paper we propose a new method for approximating the nonstationary moment dynamics of one dimensional Markovian birth-death processes. By expanding the transition probabilities of the Markov process in terms of Poisson-Charlier…
We present a new method for simulating Markovian jump processes with time-dependent transitions rates, which avoids the transformation of random numbers by inverting time integrals over the rates. It relies on constructing a sequence of…
We introduce and study a fractional variant of the linear birth-death process, namely, the generalized fractional linear birth-death process (GFLBDP) which is defined by taking the regularized Hilfer-Prabhakar derivative in the system of…
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