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Sufficient conditions for geometrical fast convergence of general spatial birth-and-death processes to equilibrium are established.
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Møller, J. On the rate of convergence of spatial birth-and-death processes. Ann Inst Stat Math 41, 565–581 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00050669
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