Sharpness of second moment criteria for branching and tree-indexed processes

Details Sharpness of second moment criteria for branching and tree-indexed processes Sharpness of second moment criteria for branching and tree-indexed processes

2004-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/math/0404090v1

Classical and modern branching processes, 257 - 262, IMA Vol. Math. Appl., 84, Springer (1997)

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Probability

7 pages

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A class of branching processes in varying environments is exhibited which become extinct almost surely even though the means M_n grow fast enough so that sum M_n^{-1} is finite. In fact, such a process is constructed for every offspring distribution of infinite variance, and this establishes the converse of a previously known fact: that if a distribution has finite variance then sum M_n^{-1}=infty is equivalent to almost sure extinction. This has as an immediate consequence the converse to a theorem on equipolarity of Galton-Watson trees.

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