Martingale convergence and the functional equation in the multi-type branching random walk

Bernoulli

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 593-604

  Kyprianou, Andreas E ^a   Rahimzadeh Sani, A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional equation; Multi type branching random walk; Size biased measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142777778     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318727     Document Type: Article

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