A 2-spine decomposition of the critical Galton-Watson tree and a probabilistic proof of Yaglom's theorem

DOI10.1214/18-ECP143zbMATH Open1394.60089arXiv1706.07125OpenAlexW2962743712MaRDI QIDQ1663753FDOQ1663753

Y.-X. Ren, Renming Song, Zhenyao Sun

Publication date: 23 August 2018

Published in: Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this note we propose a two-spine decomposition of the critical Galton-Watson tree and use this decomposition to give a probabilistic proof of Yaglom's theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07125

zbMATH Keywords

Galton-Watson processspine decompositionGalton-Watson treemartingale change of measureYaglom's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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