Skeletons of Near-Critical Bienaymé-Galton-Watson Branching Processes

DOI10.1239/AAP/1435236986zbMATH Open1320.60146arXiv1304.0069OpenAlexW1612216834MaRDI QIDQ5262452FDOQ5262452

Authors: S. Sagitov, Maria Conceição Serra 

Publication date: 15 July 2015

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

Abstract: Skeletons of branching processes are defined as trees of lineages characterized by an appropriate signature of future reproduction success. In the supercritical case a natural choice is to look for the lineages that survive forever. In the critical case it was earlier suggested to distinguish the particles with the total number of descendants exceeding a certain threshold. These two definitions lead to asymptotic representations of the skeletons as either pure birth process (in the slightly supercritical case) or critical birth-death processes (in the critical case conditioned on the total number of particles exceeding a high threshold value). The limit skeletons reveal typical survival scenarios for the underlying branching processes. In this paper we consider near-critical Bienaym'{e}-Galton-Watson processes and define their skeletons using marking of particles. If marking is rare, such skeletons are approximated by birth and death processes which can be subcritical, critical or supercritical. We obtain the limit skeleton for a sequential mutation model and compute the density distribution function for the time to escape from extinction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0069

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zbMATH Keywords

birth-death processescape from extinctionBienaymé-Galton-Watson processdecomposable multitype branching process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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