A critical branching process with immigration in random environment

Abstract

A Galton-Watson branching process with immigration evolving in a random environment is considered. Its associated random walk is assumed to be oscillating. We prove a functional limit theorem in which the process under consideration is normalized by a random coefficient depending on the random environment only. The distribution of the limiting process is described in terms of a strictly stable Levy process and a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables which is independent of this process.

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