Finite time extinction of superprocesses with catalysts

Annals of Probability

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 603-642

  Dawson, Donald A ^a   Fleischmann, Klaus ^b   Mueller, Carl ^c  

^a FIELDS INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalytic super brownian motion; Collision local time; Comparison; Critical branching; Finite time extinction; Finite time survival; Good and bad paths; Historical superprocess; Measure valued branching; Random medium; Stopped measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034345575     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1019160254     Document Type: Article

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