Quasi-stationary distributions and the continuous-state branching process conditioned to be never extinct

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 12, Issue , 2007, Pages 420-446

  Lambert, Amaury ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Continuous state branching process; H transform; Immigration; L vy process; Q process; Quasi stationary distribution; Size biased distribution; Stochastic differential equations; Theorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147104061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v12-402     Document Type: Article

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