Seneta - Heyde norming in the branching random walk

Annals of Probability

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 337-360

  Biggins, J D ^a   Kyprianou, A E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Branching random walk; Functional equations; Martingales; Seneta Heyde norming

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031496422     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1024404291     Document Type: Article

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