Survival probability of the branching random walk killed below a linear boundary

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 16, Issue , 2011, Pages 396-418

  Bérard, Jean ^a,b   Gouéré, Jean Baptiste ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Branching random walks; Survival probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952837708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v16-861     Document Type: Article

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