scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1303226
The basic building block for a marked Galton-Watson tree is \(\{N; A_1, A_2, \dots, A_N\}\), where \(N\) is the family size and \(A_i\) is the (nonnegative) mark of the \(i\)th child in the family. Independent copies of this are used to generate each new family. Associate the product of the marks in the ancestral line of \(u\), denoted by \(X_u\), with the node \(u\). Then \(Y_n\), the sum of the \(X_u\) over \(n\)th generation nodes, is a nonnegative martingale, with limit \(Z\). (If \(\log A_i\) is considered as the displacement of the \(i\)th child from its parent's position, then the framework is a branching random walk.) Necessary and sufficient conditions for \(Z\) to have moments of order \(p>1\) are obtained and information on the decay of the right tail of \(Z\) obtained [see also the author, Stochastic Processes Appl. 86, 263-286 (2000)]. It is also shown that \(Z\) has a continuous density under certain moment conditions. \textit{J. D. Biggins} and \textit{D. R. Grey} [J. Appl. Probab. 16, 740-749 (1979; Zbl 0425.60069)] provided another treatment of the continuity of \(Z\), but phrased in terms of the branching random walk. More extensive results on the characteristic function of \(Z\), but for a less general case, are given by the author [Stochastic Processes Appl. 82, No.~1, 61-87 (1999)]. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0908.00011].
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