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Mean-square and almost-sure convergence of supercritical age-dependent branching processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Edgar Z. Ganuza  and
S. D. Durham
Edgar Z. Ganuza
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina
S. D. Durham
Affiliation:
University of South Carolina
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Abstract

Letting Z(t) be the number of objects alive at time t in a general supercritical age-dependent branching process generated by a single ancestor born at time 0, one achieves (Theorem 1) mean-square convergence of Z(t)/E[Z(t)] provided and , where N(t) is the number of offspring of the initial ancestor born by time t and α is the (positive) Malthusian parameter defined by . If the stronger conditions that (Theorem 2) and hold also, then the convergence is almost-sure. It is of interest that the embedded Galton-Watson process of successive generations need not have a finite mean for the conditions of the above theorems to hold. Similar results are obtained for the age-distribution as well.

Keywords

AGE-DEPENDENT BRANCHING PROCESSESALMOST-SURE CONVERGENCERATES OF RENEWAL CONVERGENCEAGE DISTRIBUTIONS
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1974 , pp. 678 - 686
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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