Hitting time distributions for denumerable birth and death processes

DOI10.1007/s10959-012-0436-1zbMath1259.60101arXiv1007.1039OpenAlexW2017379663MaRDI QIDQ1930532

Yu Gong, Chi Zhang, Yong Hua Mao

Publication date: 11 January 2013

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1039

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluehitting timestrong ergodicitybirth and death processstrong stationary time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27)

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