A Criterion of Convergence of Generalized Processes and an Application to a Supercritical Branching Particle System

Fernández, Begoña ; Gorostiza, Luis G.

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 43 (1991) no. 5, pp. 985-997

Résumé

The problem of convergence in distribution of a large class of generalized semimartingales to a continuous process is considerably simplified by a recent theorem of Aldous [1], in conjunction with a result of Cremers and Kadelka [3] on convergence of integral functional, and the results of Mitoma [15] and Fouque [8] for generalized processes. We will give a convenient convergence criterion in this setting. The proof amounts to a direct combination of the results of the abovementioned authors, requiring only a minor extension (of a special case) of the theorem of Cremers and Kadelka.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-1991-055-2

Mots-clés : 60F17, 60G20, 60J80

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