Abstract:
Let z(t) be the number of particles at time t in a Bellman-Harris branching process with generating function f(s) of the number of direct descendants and distribution G(t) of particle lifelength satisfying the conditions f′(1)=1,f(s)=s+(1−s)1+αL(1−s),
where α∈(0,1], the function L(x) varies slowly as x→0+, and
limn→∞n(1−G(n))1−fn(0)=0,
where fn(s) is the nth iteration of f(s). Denote by {z(τ,t),0⩽ the corresponding reduced Bellman-Harris branching process, where z(\tau ,t) is the number of particles in the initial process at time \tau whose descendants or they themselves are alive at time t. Let \nu (t) be the number of dead particles of the reduced process to time t. The paper finds the limiting distribution of \nu(t) under the conditions z(t) > 0 and t \to \infty .
Keywords:
critical Bellman–Harris branching process, reduced branching process, the total number of particles, limiting distributions.
Citation:
V. A. Vatutin, “The total number of particles in a reduced Bellman–Harris branching process”, Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 38:3 (1993), 624–629; Theory Probab. Appl., 38:3 (1993), 567–571