On the construction and support properties of measure-valued diffusions on D ⊆ ℝd with spatially dependent branching

Annals of Probability

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 684-730

  Engländer, János ^a   Pinsky, Ross G ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Branching; Diffusion process; h transform; Log Laplace equation; Measure valued process; Superprocess

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038934377     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1022677383     Document Type: Article

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