A strong law of large numbers for branching processes: almost sure spine events

Simon C Harris; Matthew I Roberts

doi:10.1214/ECP.v19-2641

A strong law of large numbers for branching processes: almost sure spine events

Simon C Harris
, Matthew I Roberts

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Abstract

We demonstrate a novel strong law of large numbers for branching processes, with a simple proof via measure-theoretic manipulations and spine theory. Roughly speaking, any sequence of events that eventually occurs almost surely for the spine entails the almost sure convergence of a certain sum over particles in the population.

Original language	English
Article number	28
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Electronic Communications in Probability
Volume	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v19-2641
Publication status	Published - 8 May 2014

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Branching processes
Strong law of large numbers
Spine

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