Fixed points with finite variance of a smoothing transformation

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 105-129

  Caliebe, Amke ^a   Rösler, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branching random walks; Contraction method; Convergence of triangular schemes; Distributional fixed point equations; Functional equations; Infinite particle systems; Infinitely divisible distributions; Lebesgue density; Martingales; Moments; Weighted branching processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041841605     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(03)00075-9     Document Type: Article

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