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CONTINUOUS TIME SKIP-FREE MARKOV PROCESS AND STUDY OF BRANCHING PROCESS WITH IMMIGRATION

dc.contributor.authorWang, Jian
dc.contributor.chairPatie, Pierre
dc.contributor.committeeMemberJarrow, Robert A.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSamorodnitsky, Gennady
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-12T17:41:46Z
dc.date.available2021-03-12T17:41:46Z
dc.date.issued2020-08
dc.description111 pages
dc.description.abstractWe first develop the potential and fluctuation theories of continuous-time skip- free Markov processes, extending the recent work from Choi and Patie for skip-free Markov chains. On the one hand, this enables us to revisit in a simple manner the fluctuation theory of continuous-time skip-free random walk on Z. This was originally developed by Spitzer by means of the Wiener-Hopf factorization and, up to now, was the only class of Markov processes with jumps for which such a characterization was attainable. As the second application, we solve the two-sided exit time problems for continuous-time branching processes with immigration (CBI process), which was left open in the literature of this classical family of Markov processes. Next we aim to extend the results to continuous state space branching process with immigration. We identify an intertwining relationship between the discrete and continuous branching pro- cess with immigration. By applying the intertwining relation to the results in discrete CBI, we can derive the first hitting and first passage time of continuous CBI process. Lastly, we briefly introduce the main idea of scaled limit approach, which is an alternative way to study the continuous CBI process.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/306r-k839
dc.identifier.otherWang_cornellgrad_0058F_12172
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/cornellgrad:12172
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/103040
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectBranching Process with Immigration
dc.subjectFirst Hitting Time
dc.subjectMarkov Process
dc.titleCONTINUOUS TIME SKIP-FREE MARKOV PROCESS AND STUDY OF BRANCHING PROCESS WITH IMMIGRATION
dc.typedissertation or thesis
dcterms.licensehttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810
thesis.degree.disciplineOperations Research and Information Engineering
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy
thesis.degree.namePh. D., Operations Research and Information Engineering

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