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Measure-Valued Branching Markov Processes

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  • Includes a new chapter on one-dimensional stochastic equations and their links to stochastic flows
  • The chapter on state-dependent immigration has been completely rewritten
  • New results and examples have been added all throughout the book

Part of the book series: Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling (PTSM, volume 103)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

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This book provides a compact introduction to the theory of measure-valued branching processes, immigration processes and Ornstein–Uhlenbeck type processes.

Measure-valued branching processes arise as high density limits of branching particle systems. The first part of the book gives an analytic construction of a special class of such processes, the Dawson–Watanabe superprocesses, which includes the finite-dimensional continuous-state branching process as an example. Under natural assumptions, it is shown that the superprocesses have Borel right realizations. Transformations are then used to derive the existence and regularity of several different forms of the superprocesses. This technique simplifies the constructions and gives useful new perspectives. Martingale problems of superprocesses are discussed under Feller type assumptions. The second part investigates immigration structures associated with the measure-valued branching processes. The structures are formulated by skewconvolution semigroups, which are characterized in terms of infinitely divisible probability entrance laws. A theory of stochastic equations for one-dimensional continuous-state branching processes with or without immigration is developed, which plays a key role in the construction of measure flows of those processes. The third part of the book studies a class of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type processes in Hilbert spaces defined by generalized Mehler semigroups, which arise naturally in fluctuation limit theorems of the immigration superprocesses.

This volume is aimed at researchers in measure-valued processes, branching processes, stochastic analysis, biological and genetic models, and graduate students in probability theory and stochastic processes.



Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Zenghu Li

About the author

Zenghu Li is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He serves on the editorial board for several mathematical journals and book series, including Acta Mathematica Sinica and Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. His research interests include branching Markov processes, measure-valued Markov processes, stochastic differential equations and applications.

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