Reduced branching processes in random environment: The critical case

Theory of Probability and its Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-113

  Vatutin, V A ^a  

^a STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Critical branching process in random environment; Functional limit theorem; Random walk; Reduced process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037268982     PISSN: 0040585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0040585X97979421     Document Type: Article

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