On the quasi-stationary distribution for some randomly perturbed transformations of an interval (Q1296633)

The authors consider a continuous piecewise \(C^2\) map \(f\) of the unit interval \(I\) into itself with \(f(x)<1 \forall x\in I\) whose limit set consists of a finite number of stable and unstable fixed points. Next, they study quasi-stationary distributions of small random perturbations of \(f\) and show that under some conditions these distributions concentrate around stable fixed points. An application to density dependent branching processes is given.