A stochastic fixed point equation related to weighted branching with deterministic weights

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 11, Issue , 2006, Pages 27-56

  Alsmeyer, Gerold ^a   Rösler, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choquet Deny theorem; Infinite divisibility; L vy measure; Stable distributions; Stochastic fixed point equation; Weighted branching process

Indexed keywords

EID: 31544460089     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v11-296     Document Type: Article

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