On Zeros of a System of Polynomials and Application to Sojourn Time Distributions of Birth-and-Death Processes

DOI10.2307/2001176zbMath0652.60027MaRDI QIDQ3797953

Ken-iti Sato

Publication date: 1988

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2001176

zbMATH Keywords

first passage time; infinite divisibility; birth-and-death process; Unimodality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E07: Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions

26C10: Real polynomials: location of zeros

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

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

60E99: Distribution theory

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