A limit theorem for sample maxima and heavy branches in Galton–Watson trees

DOI10.2307/3213043zbMath0428.60034OpenAlexW2318431660MaRDI QIDQ3865211

George L. O'Brien

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3213043

zbMATH Keywords

slow variationconvergence in probabilitysample sumsample maximumsupercritical Galton-Watson treeweakly m-adic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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