This book provides a compact introduction to the theory of measure-valued branching processes, immigration processes and Ornstein–Uhlenbeck type processes.
Measure-valued branching processes arise as high density limits of branching particle systems.
Zenghu Li is a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He serves on the editorial board for several mathematical journals and book series, including Acta Mathematica Sinica and Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. His research interests include branching Markov processes, measure-valued Markov processes, stochastic differential equations and applications.