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PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN THE THEORY OF REGENERATIVE PHENOMENA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2006

J. F. C. KINGMAN
Affiliation:
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH, United [email protected]
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Abstract

Regenerative phenomena were introduced some forty years ago to address problems in the theory of continuous-time Markov processes. The early work in the theory left a number of difficult unsolved problems, in the classification of $p$-functions, oscillation and inequalities, the multiplicative theory, and the theory of unbounded semi-$p$-functions. Recent years have shown progress on all of these fronts, and this paper surveys these results, while drawing attention to significant problems that remain open.

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Survey
Copyright
The London Mathematical Society 2006

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