Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2011 Coalescence in Bellman-Harris and multi-type branching processes Jyy-i Joy Hong Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation Hong, Jyy-i Joy, "Coalescence in Bellman-Harris and multi-type branching processes" (2011). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 10103. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/10103 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Coalescence in Bellman-Harris and multi-type branching processes by Jyy-I Hong A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: Mathematics Program of Study Committee: Krishna B. Athreya, Major Professor Clifford Bergman Dan Nordman Ananda Weerasinghe Paul E. Sacks Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2011 Copyright c Jyy-I Hong, 2011. All rights reserved. ii DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this thesis to my parents Wan-Fu Hong and Wen-Hsiang Tseng for their un- conditional love and support. Without them, the completion of this work would not have been possible. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . vii ABSTRACT . viii CHAPTER 1. PRELIMINARIES . 1 1.1 Introduction . 1 1.2 Discrete-time Single-type Galton-Watson Branching Processes .