The asymptotic behaviour of extinction probability in the Smith.Wilkinson branching process

Citation
R. Grey, D. et Zhunwei, Lu, The asymptotic behaviour of extinction probability in the Smith.Wilkinson branching process, Advances in applied probability , 25(2), 1993, pp. 263-289
ISSN journal
00018678
Volume
25
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
263 - 289
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
Under some regularity conditions, in the supercritical Smith.Wilkinson branching process it is shown that as k, the starting population size, tends to infinity, the rate of convergence of qk, the corresponding extinction probability, to zero is similar to that of: k.., if there exists at least one subcritical state in the random environment space; xkk.., if there exist only supercritical states in the random environment space; exp , if there exists at least one critical state and the others are supercritical in the random environment space. Here ., x, . and c are positive constants determined by the process.