Smaller population size at the MRCA time for stationary branching processes

Annals of Probability

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2034-2068

  Chen, Yu Ting ^a   Delmas, Jean François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Branching process; Feller diffusion; Genealogy; Last coalescent event; L vy tree; Most recent common ancestor; Random size population

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872569234     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOP668     Document Type: Article

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