{ "id": "1608.08062", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-08-29T14:18:10.000Z", "updated": "2016-08-29T14:18:10.000Z", "title": "How many families survive for a long time", "authors": [ "V. A. Vatutin", "E. E. Dyakonova" ], "comment": "arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1603.03199", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "A critical branching process $\\left\\{Z_{k},k=0,1,2,...\\right\\} $ in a random environment generated by a sequence of independent and identically distributed random reproduction laws is considered.\\ Let $Z_{p,n}$ be the number of particles at time $p\\leq n$ having a positive offspring number at time $n$. \\ A theorem is proved describing the limiting behavior, as $% n\\rightarrow \\infty $ of the distribution of a properly scaled process $\\log Z_{p,n}$ under the assumptions $Z_{n}>0$ and $p\\ll n$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-08-29T14:18:10.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60J80", "60F99" ], "keywords": [ "long time", "families survive", "identically distributed random reproduction laws", "random environment", "offspring number" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }