5Critical BPREs: the Annealed Approach
5.1. Introduction
In this chapter, we consider under the annealed approach critical branching processes in random environment. Thus, we assume that the associated random walk S = {Sn, n ≥ 0} satisfies the condition
with probability 1. In this case, the population becomes extinct with probability 1 as already stated in Chapter 2. Indeed, the estimate
implies P(Zn > 0 | Z0) → 0 a.s. as n → ∞ in the critical case. Consequently,
Thus, it is of interest to investigate the rate of decay of the survival probability (Zn > 0) as n → ∞ as well as the asymptotic properties of the conditional law (Zn ∈ dx | Zn > 0).
To achieve this goal, we first construct, using the functions U(x) and V (x), some martingales in section 5.2 and introduce a change of measures using these martingales. In conclusion, we investigate the properties of the prospective minimum value of in section 5.3.
These preliminary results will enable us to describe, in section 5.5
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