Resource dependent branching processes and the envelope of societies

DOI10.1214/13-AAP998zbMath1308.60103arXiv1212.0693WikidataQ56805414 ScholiaQ56805414MaRDI QIDQ2258534

Mitia Duerinckx, F. Thomas Bruss

Publication date: 26 February 2015

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0693

zbMATH Keywords

order statistics; complete convergence; Borel-Cantelli lemma; stopping times; communism; Lorenz curve; Galton-Watson processes; almost-sure convergence; capitalism; controlled branching processes; extinction criteria; laissez-faire society; mercantilism; society structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J05: Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces

60J85: Applications of branching processes

60G40: Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory

91D10: Models of societies, social and urban evolution

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

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