A microscopic probabilistic description of a locally regulated population and macroscopic approximations

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1880-1919

  Fournier, Nicolas ^a   Méléard, Sylvie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ HENRI POINCARÉ NANCY 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Deterministic macroscopic approximation; Equilibrium; Interacting measure valued processes; Nonlinear superprocess; Regulated population

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844479973     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/105051604000000882     Document Type: Article

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