Classical and Modern Branching Processes
By: edited by Krishna B. Athreya, Peter Jagers
Contributors: Jagers, Peter
Series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications -- 84; IMA volumes in mathematics and its applications -- 84.
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781461273158; 9781461218623
Subjects: Mathematics; Distribution (Probability theory)
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Table of contents: title: Large Deviation rates for supercritical and critical branching processes; title: How fast does a general branching random walk spread; title: Boltzmann-Gibbs weights in the branching processes; title: Multilevel multitype branching models of an information system; title: On the shape of the wavefront of branching random walk; title: Limiting distribution in random processes with two types of particles; title: Depth-first search of random trees, and Poisson point processes; title: Towards dependence in general branching processes; title: A criterion of boundedness of discrete branching random walk; title: Quasistationarity in a branching model of division-within-division; title: Population and density dependent branching processes; title: Directed polymers in random media and spin glass models of trees; title: A conceptual proof of the Kesten-Stigum theorem; title: On two measures defined on the boundary of a branching tree; title: Which critically branching populations persist; title: A simple path to Biggins' martingale convergence for branching random walk; title: Unsolved problems concerning random walks on trees; title: Branching processes with local dependencies; title: Sharpness of second moment criteria for branching and tree-indexed processes; title: On the recognition and structure of probability generating functions; title: Record values of a family of branching processes; title: Limit Skeleton for critical crump-mode-Jagers branching process; title: Markov cascades; title: Limit theorems for branching processes with random migration stopped at zero.