A note on some results of Schuh

Abstract

We extend recent results of Schuh on the convergence of , where α ≧ 0 and Sn is the sum of n i.i.d. positive random variables to sums of the form for a large class of functions g, give simpler proofs than those of Schuh, and derive reformulations of the explosion criteria for Markov branching processes with discrete and continuous state space.