scholarly journals A note on diffusion-type approximation to branching processes in random environments

2002 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Константин Александрович Боровков ◽  
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Borovkov
Keyword(s):  
Branching Processes ◽  
Random Environments ◽  
Diffusion Type ◽  
Type Approximation

On calculating extinction probabilities for branching processes in random environments

1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (03) ◽  
pp. 478-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Generating Functions ◽  
Infinite Sequence ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Transition Probability ◽  
Transition Probability Matrix ◽  
Random Environments ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
Discrete Time Markov Chain ◽  
Extinction Probabilities ◽  
Image Position

Consider a discrete time Markov chain {Zn } whose state space is the non-negative integers and whose transition probability matrix ║Pij ║ possesses the representation where {Pr }, r = 1,2,…, is a finite or denumerably infinite sequence of non-negative real numbers satisfying , and , is a corresponding sequence of probability generating functions. It is assumed that Z 0 = k, a finite positive integer.

Branching processes with varying and random geometric offspring distributions

1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 135-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels Keiding ◽  
John E. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behavior ◽  
Generating Functions ◽  
Conditional Expectation ◽  
Elementary Proof ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Random Environments ◽  
Subcritical Case ◽  
Supercritical Case ◽  
Extinction Probabilities ◽  
Varying Environments

The class of fractional linear generating functions is used to illustrate various aspects of the theory of branching processes in varying and random environments. In particular, it is shown that Church's theorem on convergence of the varying environments process admits of an elementary proof in this particular case. For random environments, examples are given on the asymptotic behavior of extinction probabilities in the supercritical case and conditional expectation given non-extinction in the subcritical case.

scholarly journals Branching processes with random environments

1970 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna B. Athreya ◽  
Samuel Karlin
Keyword(s):  
Branching Processes ◽  
Random Environments

Asymptotic behaviour of population-size-dependent branching processes in Markovian random environments

1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-619 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han-Xing Wang ◽  
Dafan Fang
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Behaviour ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Branching Process ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Random Environments ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
Size Dependent ◽  
Recurrent Markov Chain ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Positive Recurrent

A population-size-dependent branching process {Zn} is considered where the population's evolution is controlled by a Markovian environment process {ξn}. For this model, let mk,θ and be the mean and the variance respectively of the offspring distribution when the population size is k and a environment θ is given. Let B = {ω : Zn(ω) = 0 for some n} and q = P(B). The asymptotic behaviour of limnZn and is studied in the case where supθ|mk,θ − mθ| → 0 for some real numbers {mθ} such that infθmθ > 1. When the environmental sequence {ξn} is a irreducible positive recurrent Markov chain (particularly, when its state space is finite), certain extinction (q = 1) and non-certain extinction (q < 1) are studied.

Branching processes in near-critical random environments

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (A) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Peter Jagers ◽  
Fima Klebaner
Keyword(s):  
Polymerase Chain Reaction ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Linear Growth ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Random Environments ◽  
Chain Reaction ◽  
Polymerase Chain

Branching processes are studied in random environments that are influenced by the population size and approach criticality as the population gets large. Results are applied to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which is empirically known to exhibit first exponential and then linear growth of molecule numbers.

scholarly journals Recurrence and Transience of Critical Branching Processes in Random Environment with Immigration and an Application to Excited Random Walks

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (03) ◽  
pp. 687-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Bauernschubert
Keyword(s):  
Random Walk ◽  
Random Walks ◽  
Random Environment ◽  
Branching Processes ◽  
Random Environments ◽  
Recurrent Random Walk ◽  
The Right

We establish recurrence and transience criteria for critical branching processes in random environments with immigration. These results are then applied to the recurrence and transience of a recurrent random walk in a random environment on ℤ disturbed by cookies inducing a drift to the right of strength 1.

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