The smoothing transform: a review of contraction results

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-38806-4_9zbMATH Open1283.60109OpenAlexW126809045MaRDI QIDQ2863577FDOQ2863577

Authors: Gerold Alsmeyer 

Publication date: 22 November 2013

Published in: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38806-4_9

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zbMATH Keywords

contractionfixed pointprobability metricssmoothing transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Fixed-point theorems (47H10)

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