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Times of a Branching Process with Immigration in Varying Environments Attaining a Fixed Level

  • Huaming Wang

摘要

Consider a branching process {Zn}n≥0 with immigration in varying environments. For a ∈ {0, 1, 2, …}, let C(a) = {n ≥ 0: Zn = a} be the collection of times at which the population size of the process attains level a. We give a criterion to determine whether the set C(a) is finite or not. For the critical Galton–Watson process, based on a moment method, we show that \({{| {C(a) \cap [1,n]} |} \over {\log \;n \to S}}\) | C ( a ) [ 1 , n ] | log n S in distribution, where S is an exponentially distributed random variable with P(S > t) = et, t > 0.