Elementary fixed points of the BRW smoothing transforms with infinite number of summands

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-50

  Iksanov, Aleksander M ^a  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Branching random walk; Contraction principle; Fixed points; Perpetuity; Regular variation; Smoothing transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644286698     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2004.06.002     Document Type: Article

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