The decay function of nonhomogeneous birth-death processes, with application to mean-field models

Boris L. Granovsky and Alexander I. Zeifman

Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 1997, vol. 72, issue 1, 105-120

Abstract: The paper develops in different directions the method of the second author for estimation of the rate of exponential convergence of nonhomogeneous birth-death processes. Applying the method to mean-field models, we discover some phenomena related to their spectral gaps.

Keywords: Birth-death; processes; Spectral; gap; Mean-field; models; Critical; points; Decay; function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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