Asymptotic properties and absolute continuity of laws stable by random weighted mean

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 83-107

  Liu, Quansheng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

60F05, 60F15; 60K35; Branching processes; Branching random walks; Crump Mode Jagers; Functional equations; Left tails; Martingales; Moments of negative orders; Multiplicative cascades; Primary 60J80, 60G57; Secondary 60G42, 60E10, 60G30; Smoothing processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012585124     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(01)00092-8     Document Type: Article

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