On subcritical multi-type branching process in random environment

Abstract

We investigate a multi-type Galton-Watson process in a random environment generated by a sequence of independent identically distributed random variables. Suppose that the associated random walk constructed by the logarithms of the Perron roots of the reproduction mean matrices has negative mean and assuming some additional conditions, we find the asymptotics of the survival probability at time $n$ as $n \to \infty$.

Keywords

• branching processes in random environment
• survival probability
• limit theorems
• random walks
• [math.math-co] mathematics [math]/combinatorics [math.co]
• [info.info-dm] computer science [cs]/discrete mathematics [cs.dm]
• [math.math-ds] mathematics [math]/dynamical systems [math.ds]