{ "id": "1504.04997", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-04-20T10:08:37.000Z", "updated": "2015-04-20T10:08:37.000Z", "title": "Decomposable branching processes having a fixed extinction moment", "authors": [ "Vladimir Vatutin", "Elena Dyakonova" ], "comment": "28 pages", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "The asymptotic behavior, as $n\\rightarrow \\infty $ of the probability of the event that a decomposable critical branching process $\\mathbf{Z}(m)=(Z_{1}(m),...,Z_{N}(m)),$ $m=0,1,2,...,$ with $N$ types of particles dies at moment $n$ is investigated and conditional limit theorems are proved describing the distribution of the number of particles in the process $\\mathbf{Z}(\\cdot)$ at moment $m