Diffusion approximation of branching migration processes

DOI10.1007/BF02365056MaRDI QIDQ1291187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elena E. Dyakonova

Publication date 22 November 1999

Published in Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02365056

zbMATH Keywords

diffusion approximation emigration Galton-Watson process immigration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

Review text

Consider a branching process \(\{Z^{(k)}_0,Z^{(k)}_1,\ldots\}\) with \(Z^{(k)}_0=k\), such that for \(Z^{(k)}_n>0\), either \(j\geq 0\) particles immigrate into the population \(Z^{(k)}_n\) with probability \(q_j\) or one particle emigrates with probability \(r\) (\(\sum_{j=0}^\infty q_j+r=1\)). After this, all particles independently produce offspring according to the same probability distribution, the total number of offspring being \(Z^{(k)}_{n+1}\). Assume that the offspring mean is \(1+\alpha/k\) and the offspring second factorial moment is \(2b\). It is shown that subject to regularity conditions, for any \(t\geq 0\), \(Z_{[kt]}^{(k)}/k\) converges in distribution as \(k\to\infty\) to \(x_t\), where \(\{x_t, t\geq 0\}\), \(x_0=1\), is the diffusion with infinitesimal drift \(\alpha x\) and variance \(bx\), having zero as an absorbing barrier.

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