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Elie Aïdékon Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Zhan Shi Laboratoire de Probabilités UMR 7599, Université Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France

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Consider the boundary case in a one-dimensional super-critical branching random walk. It is known that upon the survival of the system, the minimal position after n steps behaves in probability like
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log n when n → ∞. We give a simple and self-contained proof of this result, based exclusively on elementary properties of sums of i.i.d. real-valued random variables.
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Periodica Mathematica Hungarica
Language English
Size B5
Year of
Foundation
1971
Volumes
per Year
2
Issues
per Year
4
Founder Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat - János Bolyai Mathematical Society
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Address
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Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
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ISSN 0031-5303 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2829 (Online)

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