Branching diffusions, superdiffusions and random media

Probability Surveys

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 303-364

  Engländer, János ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching diffu sions; Catalytic branching; Compact support property; Criticality theory; Law of Large Numbers; Local ex tinction; Measure valued processes; Mild obstacles; Nonlinear h transform; Random environment; Random media; Second order elliptic operators; Spatial branching processes; Spine decomposition; Superprocesses

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952574461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15495787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-PS120     Document Type: Article

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