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The spectrum of intervals of a geometric branching poisson process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

D. C. Gilles
Affiliation:
Computing Laboratory, University of Glasgow
P. A. W. Lewis
Affiliation:
IBM Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights, New York

Abstract

A summation formula is given for computing the spectrum of intervals of a geometric branching Poisson process from the cumulant generating function of the associated counting process.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 

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