Subcritical branching processes in a random environment without the Cramer condition

Vladimir Vatutin, Xinghua Zheng*

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Abstract

A subcritical branching process in random environment (BPRE) is considered whose associated random walk does not satisfy the Cramer condition. The asymptotics for the survival probability of the process is investigated, and a Yaglom type conditional limit theorem is proved for the number of particles up to moment n given survival to this moment. Contrary to other types of subcritical BPRE, the limiting distribution is not discrete. We also show that the process survives for a long time owing to a single big jump of the associate random walk accompanied by a population explosion at the beginning of the process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2594-2609
Number of pages16
JournalStochastic Processes and their Applications
Volume122
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2012

Keywords

  • Branching process
  • Functional limit theorem
  • Random environment
  • Random walk
  • Survival probability

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