LIMITING DISTRIBUTIONS FOR CRITICAL MULTITYPE BRANCHING PROCESSES WITH DISCRETE TIME

Abstract

The theory of branching processes treats the multiplication of objects subject to laws of chance. It has been applied to such phenomena as bacterial fission, cosmic ray showers, and neutron chain reactions. This report describes the probability law governing the descendants of a single object after many generations, if on the average an object has just one surviving child (in the language of reactors, this is the critical case). These results could be useful in the study of controlled nuclear reactions. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0270859

Entities

People

  • T.w. Mullikin

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chain Reactions
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Fission
  • Language
  • Neutron Reactions
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Probability

Readers

  • Immunology
  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Solar Physics