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arxiv: 1505.03981 · v1 · pith:2NGJZBA5new · submitted 2015-05-15 · 🧮 math.PR

Branching within branching II: Limit theorems

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This continues work started in part I on a general branching-within-branching model for host-parasite co-evolution. Here we focus on asymptotic results for relevant processes in the case when parasites survive. In particular, limit theorems for the processes of contaminated cells and of parasites are established by using martingale theory and the technique of size-biasing. The results for both processes are of Kesten-Stigum type by including equivalent integrability conditions for the martingale limits to be positive with positive probability. The case when these conditions fail is also studied. For the process of contaminated cells, we show that a proper Heyde-Seneta norming exists such that the limit is nondegenerate.

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