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A note on the branching random walk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Norman Kaplan*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
*
Postal address: Biometry Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, P.O. Box 12233, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, U.S.A.

Abstract

A well-known theorem in the theory of branching random walks is shown to hold when only Σj log jpj <∞. This result was asserted by Athreya and Kaplan (1978), but their proof was incorrect.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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