Conditions for exponential ergodicity and bounds for the decay parameter of a birth-death process

DOI10.2307/1427118zbMath0597.60080MaRDI QIDQ3730753

Erik A. van Doorn

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

spectral representationbirth-death processdecay parameterKarlin- McGregor spectral representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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