Critical branching processes in random environment with immigration: survival of a single family

We consider a critical branching process in an i.i.d. random environment, in which one immigrant arrives at each generation. We are interested in the event A i ( n ) that all individuals alive at time n are offsprings of the immigrant which joined the population at time i . We study the asymptotic p...

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Published in:Extremes (Boston) 2021-09, Vol.24 (3), p.433-460
Main Authors: Smadi, Charline, Vatutin, Vladimir
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asymptotic properties
Branching (mathematics)
Civil Engineering
Economics
Environmental Management
Finance
Hydrogeology
Insurance
Management
Markov processes
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Noncitizens
Probability
Quality Control
Random walk
Reliability
Safety and Risk
Statistics
Statistics for Business
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Summary:We consider a critical branching process in an i.i.d. random environment, in which one immigrant arrives at each generation. We are interested in the event A i ( n ) that all individuals alive at time n are offsprings of the immigrant which joined the population at time i . We study the asymptotic probability of this extreme event when n is large and i follows different asymptotics which may be related to n ( i fixed, close to n , or going to infinity but far from n ). In order to do so, we establish some limit theorems for random walks conditioned to stay positive or nonnegative, which are of independent interest.
ISSN:1386-1999
1572-915X
DOI:10.1007/s10687-021-00413-7