Branching in a Markovian Environment
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arXiv2106.11249MaRDI QIDQ6370853FDOQ6370853
Authors: Lila Greco, Lionel Levine 
Publication date: 21 June 2021
Abstract: A branching process in a Markovian environment consists of an irreducible Markov chain on a set of "environments" together with an offspring distribution for each environment. At each time step the chain transitions to a new random environment, and one individual is replaced by a random number of offspring whose distribution depends on the new environment. We give a first moment condition that determines whether this process survives forever with positive probability. On the event of survival we prove a law of large numbers and a central limit theorem for the population size. We also define a matrix-valued generating function for which the extinction matrix (whose entries are the probability of extinction in state j given that the initial state is i) is a fixed point, and we prove that iterates of the generating function starting with the zero matrix converge to the extinction matrix.
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