Sunday, 19 December 2010

pr.probability - Exponential tails for a functional of a subcritical branching process.

Let (mi,iinmathbbN) be positive weights with sumiinmathbbNm2i<0.1.
Consider a subcritical branching process in discrete time and continuous space,
started from some initial mass x>0, and with branching mechanism as follows:
given mass m in generation n, generation n+1 has total mass
sumiinmathbbNmiNi,


where the Ni are independent and Ni has distribution mathrmPoisson(mcdotmi). (One can think of a total number Ni of copies of mass mi in generation n+1.)



Let Zn be the total mass at level n. Does suminftyn=0Z1/2n then have exponential tails?

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