Fixed points of the smoothing transform: The boundary case

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 10, Issue , 2005, Pages 609-631

  Biggins, J D ^a   Kyprianou, A E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Branching random walk; Functional equation; Smoothing transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244451201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v10-255     Document Type: Article

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