Asymptotic Behavior of the Extinction Probabilitiesfor Stopped Branching Processes (Q4954364)

A subcritical and indecomposable multitype Galton-Watson branching process \[ \mu(t)=(\mu_1(t),\mu_2(t),\ldots,\mu_m(t)),\quad t=0,1,2\ldots, \] is considered which generates a stopped branching process \(\xi(t)\) by ``frozing'' the evolution of \(\mu(t)\) when it hits a finite set \(S\). It is proved that the extinction probability \[ q_r^n=\lim_{t\to\infty} {\mathbb P}\{\xi(t)=r \mid \xi(0)=n\} \] is asymptotically approaching, for any \(r=(r_1,r_2\ldots, r_m)\in S\), \(n=(n_1\ldots n_m)\notin S\) for \(n^*=n_1+\cdots+n_m\to\infty\), \(n_i/n^*\to a_i\), a function which is periodic in \(\log_{1/R}n^*\) with period~1. Here \(R<1\) is the Perron root of the mean matrix of the initial subcritical branching process.