Strong law of large numbers and \(L\log L\) condition for supercritical branching processes
摘要
We consider branching processes for structured populations: each individual is characterised by a type or trait which belongs to a general measurable state space. We focus on the supercritical recurrent case, where the population may survive and grow and the trait distribution converges to a probability measure. The branching process is then expected to be driven by the positive triplet of first eigenvalue problem of the first moment semigroup. Under the assumption of convergence of the renormalized semigroup in weighted total variation norm, we prove strong convergence of the renormalized empirical measure and non-degeneracy of the limit of the martingale. Convergence is obtained under an