Necessary and Sufficient Lifetime Conditions for Normed Convergence of Critical Age-Dependent Processes with Infinite Variance

Abstract

The critical age-dependent branching process with offspring p.g.f. of the form $f(s) = s + (1 - s)^{1 + \alpha}L(1 - s), 0 < \alpha \leq 1, L$ slowly varying at 0, is investigated. We generalize Kesten's unpublished necessary condition to establish N.A.S.C. on the tail of the lifetime distribution for existence of a nondegenerate normalized conditioned limit law and pose several related questions.