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The λ-classification of continuous-time birth-and-death processes
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Markov processes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2016
Abstract
We study the λ-classification of absorbing birth-and-death processes, giving necessary and sufficient conditions for such processes to be λ-transient, λ-null recurrent and λ-positive recurrent.
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