Branching Processes Proceedings of the First World Congress [Paperback]

Section 1 Supercritical processes.- Supercritical branching processes: a unified approach.- On the statistics of controlled branching processes.- Section 2 Critical processes.- Aspects of the critical case of a generalized Galton-Watson branching process.- Critical general branching processes with long-living particles.- Critical branching processes with random migration.- Section 3 Processes with immigration.- Some results for multitype Bellman-Harris branching processes with state-dependent immigration.- Branching processes as sums of dependent random variables.- Non-homogenous decomposable branching processes.- Age-dependent branching processes with state dependent immigration.- Section 4 Processes with varying environments.- A new class of branching processes.- The extinction time of the inhomogeneous branching process.- Smith-Wilkinson branching proceses with random environment and dependence with complete connections.- Section 5 Measure-valued processes.- Super-Brownian motions in catalytic media.- Multitype branching particle systems and high density limits.- Section 6 Variants on the branching model.- Representation of Markov chains as stochastic differential equations.- An extension of a Galton-Watson process to a two density dependent model.- Multitype contact branching process.Springer Book Archives