Uniqueness criteria for continuous-time Markov chains with general transition structures

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1056-1074

  Chen, Anyue ^a,b   Pollett, Phil ^c   Zhang, Hanjun ^c   Cairns, Ben ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth death process; Downwardly skip free process; Markov branching process; Upwardly skip free process

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY;

BIRTH-DEATH PROCESS; DOWNWARDLY SKIP-FREE PROCESS; MARKOV BRANCHING PROCESS; UPWARDLY SKIP-FREE PROCESS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 31944436197     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1134587753     Document Type: Article

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