Implicit renewal theory and power tails on trees

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 528-561

  Jelenković, Predrag R ^a   Olvera Cravioto, Mariana ^a  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit renewal theory; Large deviations; Multiplicative cascade; Power law; Stochastic fixed point equation; Stochastic recursion; Weighted branching process

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING PROCESS; FIXED POINT EQUATION; LARGE DEVIATIONS; MULTIPLICATIVE CASCADES; POWER LAW; RECURSIONS; RENEWAL THEORY;

FORESTRY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84863980624     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1339878723     Document Type: Article

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