The branching random walk and contact process on Galton-Watson and nonhomogeneous trees

Annals of Probability

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1563-1590

  Pemantle, Robin ^a   Stacey, Alan M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Branching random walk; Contact process; Phase transiton; Spectral radius; Tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035470868     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1015345762     Document Type: Article

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