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Survival at Criticality

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We will remain in the setting of the Asmussen–Hering class of BMPs, i.e., assuming (G2), and insist throughout this chapter that we are in the critical setting, that is, \(\lambda _*=0\).

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Horton, E., Kyprianou, A.E. (2023). Survival at Criticality. In: Stochastic Neutron Transport . Probability and Its Applications. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39546-8_10

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