Moments and order statistics of extinction times in multitype branching processes and their relation to random selection models (Q1058781)

We investigate the circumstances under which the moments of the order statistics of the extinction times of a set of independent branching processes exist. This extends a result of \textit{P. Schuster} and \textit{K. Sigmund}, ibid. 46, 11-17 (1984; Zbl 0525.92013), which was found in a special random selection model. Furthermore we discuss the existence of the expectation of extinction times of multitype branching processes and extend well known results for irreducible processes to the reducible case.