Immortal Particle for a Catalytic Branching Process†
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چکیده
We study the existence and some asymptotic properties of a conservative branching particle system for which birth and death are triggered by contact with a set. Sufficient conditions for the process to be non-explosive are given, solving a long standing open problem. With probability one, it is shown that only one ancestry survives. In special cases, the evolution of the surviving particle is studied and for a two particle system on a half line we derive explicitly the transition function of a chain representing the position at successive branching times.
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