## Electronic Communications in Probability

### A strong law of large numbers for branching processes: almost sure spine events

#### Abstract

We demonstrate a novel strong law of large numbers for branching processes, with a simple proof via measure-theoretic manipulations and spine theory. Roughly speaking, any sequence of events that eventually occurs almost surely for the spine entails the almost sure convergence of a certain sum over particles in the population.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 19 (2014), paper no. 28, 6 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 8 May 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 7 June 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465316730

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/ECP.v19-2641

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3208326

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1312.60022

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#### Citation

Harris, Simon; Roberts, Matthew. A strong law of large numbers for branching processes: almost sure spine events. Electron. Commun. Probab. 19 (2014), paper no. 28, 6 pp. doi:10.1214/ECP.v19-2641. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465316730

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