Additional aspects of the generalized linear-fractional branching process
arXiv:1607.01915
Abstract
We derive some additional results on the Bienyamé-Galton-Watson branching process with linear fractional branching mechanism, as studied in \cite{Sag}. This includes: the explicit expression of the limit laws in both the sub-critical cases and the super-critical cases with finite mean, the long-run behavior of the population size in the critical case, limit laws in the super-critical cases with infinite mean when the -process is either regular or explosive, results regarding the time to absorption, an expression of the probability law of the -branching mechanism involving Bell polynomials, the explicit computation of the stochastic transition matrix of the process, together with its powers.
arXiv commentTo appear in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics