Exponential growth of a branching process usually implies stable age distribution
- 1 September 1979
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 16 (3) , 651-656
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3213093
Abstract
Start a Bellman–Harris branching process from one or several ancestors, whose ages are identically distributed random variables. Assume that the life-length distribution decays more quickly than exponentially and that the distribution of ages at start does not give too much mass to high ages (in a sense to be made precise). Then, if the expected population size is an exponential function of time, the ages must follow the stable age distribution of the process.Keywords
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