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The time of completion of a linear birth-growth model
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2016
Abstract
Consider the following birth-growth model in ℝ. Seeds are born randomly according to an inhomogeneous space-time Poisson process. A newly formed point immediately initiates a bi-directional coverage by sending out a growing branch. Each frontier of a branch moves at a constant speed until it meets an opposing one. New seeds continue to form on the uncovered parts on the line. We are interested in the time until a bounded interval is completely covered. The exact and limiting distributions as the length of interval tends to infinity are obtained for this completion time by considering a related Markov process. Moreover, some strong limit results are also established.
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Research supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. HKBU/2075/98P) and also by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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