Branching processes in lévy processes: The exploration process

Annals of Probability

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 213-252

  Le Gall, Jean Francois ^a,b   Le Jan, Yves ^a,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Branching processes; Exploration process; Genealogy; Jump processes; L vy processes; Local time; Random tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032348696     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1022855417     Document Type: Article

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