The descending motion of particles in a Sierpinski gasket subject to a branching process is examined. The splitting on escape nodes of failing particles makes the event of reaching the base of the gasket possible with positive probability. The r.v.'s Y(k), representing the number of particles reaching level k (that is the k-th generation) is the main object of our analysis. The transition probabilities, the means and variances of Y(k) are obtained explicitly with a number of recursive formulas concerning the probability generating functions Et(Y(k)), k >= 1. A section is also devoted to the analysis of extinction probabilities for the branching process developing in this specific fractal set. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Branching on a Sierpinski graph / S., Leorato; Orsingher, Enzo. - In: STATISTICS & PROBABILITY LETTERS. - ISSN 0167-7152. - 79:2(2009), pp. 145-154. [10.1016/j.spl.2008.07.032]
Branching on a Sierpinski graph
ORSINGHER, Enzo
2009
Abstract
The descending motion of particles in a Sierpinski gasket subject to a branching process is examined. The splitting on escape nodes of failing particles makes the event of reaching the base of the gasket possible with positive probability. The r.v.'s Y(k), representing the number of particles reaching level k (that is the k-th generation) is the main object of our analysis. The transition probabilities, the means and variances of Y(k) are obtained explicitly with a number of recursive formulas concerning the probability generating functions Et(Y(k)), k >= 1. A section is also devoted to the analysis of extinction probabilities for the branching process developing in this specific fractal set. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
