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Martingale Convergence and Laws of Large Numbers

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As usual, we will work in the setting that our branching Markov process, \((X, \mathbb {P})\), belongs to the Asmussen–Hering class, that is to say, (G2) is satisfied.

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Horton, E., Kyprianou, A.E. (2023). Martingale Convergence and Laws of Large Numbers. In: Stochastic Neutron Transport . Probability and Its Applications. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39546-8_12

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