Branching processes
Branching processes
Branching processes are a class of stochastic processes. They serve as models of biological populations such as humans, cells or plants, as models for tumor growth, but also for neutron chain reactions or fragmentation. Branching processes are also important tools within related fields of applied probability or theoretical computer science, more specifically, for the probabilistic algorithms of the divide-and-conquer type. We investigate martingales from branching models and with their help the fluctuations of branching processes themselves.