Fixed points of a generalized smoothing transformation and applications to the branching random walk

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-112

  Liu, Quansheng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Branching processes; Branching random walks; Functional equation; Mandelbrot's martingale; Smoothing transformation; Stable law

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BRANCHING PROCESSES; BRANCHING RANDOM WALKS; MANDELBROT'S MARTINGALE; SMOOTHING TRANSFORMATION; STABLE LAW;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 0032025081     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800008090     Document Type: Article

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