Extinction times for a general birth, death and catastrophe process

DOI10.1239/jap/1101840567zbMath1063.60106MaRDI QIDQ4660546

Benjamin J. Cairns, Philip K. Pollett

Publication date: 4 April 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/8b0ce885d7b2e7b70eb3f74350c609069aa6253a

zbMATH Keywords

persistence time; hitting time; catastrophe process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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

92B05: General biology and biomathematics

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