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SOME PROPERTIES OF GALTON-WATSON BRANCHING PROCESSES IN VARYING ENVIRONMENTS

  • YU Jing-Hu ,
  • XU Fang
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  • 1. Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
     State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China; 2. Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, |the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
     Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, |Beijing 100039, China

Received date: 2007-12-30

  Revised date: 2008-07-10

  Online published: 2010-07-20

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This article are supported by NNSF of China (60534080, 70571079) and Open Fundation of SKLSE of Wuhan University (2008-07-03)

Abstract

This article deals with some properties of Galton-Watson branching processes in varying environments. A
necessary and sufficient condition for relative recurrent state is presented, and a series of ratio limit properties of the transition probabilities are showed.

Cite this article

YU Jing-Hu , XU Fang . SOME PROPERTIES OF GALTON-WATSON BRANCHING PROCESSES IN VARYING ENVIRONMENTS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2010 , 30(4) : 1105 -1114 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(10)60108-7

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