On largest offspring in a critical branching process with finite variance

DOI10.1239/JAP/1378401236MaRDI QIDQ2854081zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean Bertoin

Publication date 17 October 2013

Published in Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3854, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jap/1378401236

zbMATH Keywords

extreme value theorybranching processCox processmaximal offspring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Random measures (60G57) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

Abstract: We continue our study of the distribution of the maximal number $X_k^{ast}$ of offsprings amongst all individuals in a critical Galton-Watson process started with $k$ ancestors, treating the case when the reproduction law has a regularly varying tail $$ with index $-alpha$ for $alpha>2$ (and hence finite variance). We show that $X_k^{ast}$ suitably normalized converges in distribution to a Frechet law with shape parameter $alpha/2$; this contrasts sharply with the case $1<alpha<2$ when the variance is infinite. More generally, we obtain a weak limit theorem for the offspring sequence ranked in the decreasing order, in terms of atoms of a certain doubly stochastic Poisson measure.

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