Measure-branching renewal processes

DOI10.1016/0304-4149(94)90030-2MaRDI QIDQ1338750zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 20 November 1994

Published in Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4149(94)90030-2

branching renewal model measure-branching process measure-valued renewal process

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Markov renewal processes, semi-Markov processes (60K15)

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The author studies a population of individuals with a common reproduction law. At its death each individual gives birth to a random number of daughters. Here, the reproduction law of an individual means the joint distribution of the number of its daughters and the lengths of their lives. This is called a branching renewal model provided all reproduction acts have independent outcomes. This reproduction model is treated as a nonlinear renewal process when elements are replaced by a random number of new elements. Let \(\mu^ t ([0, \infty[)\) denote the number of individuals at time \(t\), and let \(\mu^ t ([0,u])\) denote the number of individuals at time \(t\) who will die by time \(t+u\). The resulting measure-valued process \((\mu^ t)\) (being called a measure-valued renewal process) is a homogeneous Markov process. The author shows that under certain conditions there exists a time scale \(T=T(n)\) such that the sequence \((n^{-1} \mu^{T_ t} (T du))_{t \geq 0}\) is weakly convergent.

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