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Quasi-renewal estimates

Part of: Special processes Mathematical biology in general

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Didier Piau
Didier Piau*
Affiliation:
Université Lyon-I
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∗Postal address: Laboratoire de Probabilités, Université Claude Bernard (Lyon-I), 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France. Email address: piau@jonas.univ-lyon1.fr
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Abstract

We show that the solution of a quasi-renewal equation with an exponential distribution of the renewals converges at infinity and we compute explicitly the limit, hence generalizing the classical renewal theorem. We apply this result to a stochastic model of DNA replication introduced by Cowan and Chiu (1994).

Keywords

Renewal equationLaplace transform

MSC classification

Primary: 60K05: Renewal theory
Secondary: 60K10: Applications (reliability, demand theory, etc.) 92B05: General biology and biomathematics
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 269 - 275
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 by The Applied Probability Trust 

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