The genealogy of branching brownian motion with absorption

Annals of Probability

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 527-618

  Berestycki, Julien ^a   Berestycki, Nathanaël ^b   Schweinsberg, Jason ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bolthausen Sznitman coalescent; Branching brownian motion; Continuous state branching processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876368455     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOP728     Document Type: Article

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