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SOME PROPERTIES OF GALTON-WATSON BRANCHING PROCESSES IN VARYING ENVIRONMENTS
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)
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.
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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