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Elementary fixed points of the BRW smoothing transforms with infinite number of summands

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The branching random walk (BRW) smoothing transform T is defined as , where given realizations {Xi}i=1L of a point process, U1,U2,... , are conditionally independent identically distributed random variables, and 0[less-than-or-equals, slant]Prob{L=[infinity]}[less-than-or-equals, slant]1. Given [alpha][set membership, variant](0,1], [alpha]-elementary fixed points are fixed points of T whose Laplace-Stieltjes transforms [phi] satisfy lims-->+0 (1-[phi](s))/s[alpha]=const>0. If [alpha]=1, these are the fixed points with finite mean. We show exactly when elementary fixed points exist. In this case these are the only fixed points of T and are unique up to a multiplicative constant. These results do not need any extra moment conditions. In particular, a distributional version of Biggins' martingale convergence theorem is proved in full generality. Essentially we apply recent results due to Lyons (Classical and Modern Branching Processes, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 84, Springer, Berlin, 1997, p. 217) and Goldie and Maller (Ann. Probab. 28 (2000) 1195), as the key point of our approach is a close connection between fixed points with finite mean and perpetuities. As a by-product, we lift from our general results the solution to a Pitman-Yor problem. Finally, we study the tail behaviour of some fixed points with finite mean.

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  • Iksanov, Aleksander M., 2004. "Elementary fixed points of the BRW smoothing transforms with infinite number of summands," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 114(1), pages 27-50, November.
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