Branching Collision Processes with Immigration

Abstract

AbstractWe consider the regularity and ergodic properties of the Branching Collision Process with Immigration (BCIP) in this paper. We establish an easy checking sufficient condition under which the Feller minimal BCIP is honest. We provide some good conditions under which the Feller minimal BCIP is positive recurrent and then establish an analytic form of the generating function of the stationary distribution. The closely associated expected hitting times are also considered. Examples and numerical calculations are provided to illustrate our results.