Hitting time distributions for denumerable birth and death processes

DOI10.1007/s10959-012-0436-1zbMath1259.60101arXiv1007.1039MaRDI QIDQ1930532

Yu Gong, Chi Zhang, Yong Hua Mao

Publication date: 11 January 2013

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1039

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalue; hitting time; strong ergodicity; birth and death process; strong stationary time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37A30: Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators

60J80: Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.)

60J27: Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces

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