@article{EJP573,
author = {Charles Bordenave},
title = {On the birth-and-assassination process, with an application to scotching a rumor in a network},
journal = {Electron. J. Probab.},
fjournal = {Electronic Journal of Probability},
volume = {13},
year = {2008},
keywords = {branching process, heavy tail phenomena, SIR epidemics},
abstract = {We give new formulas on the total number of born particles in the stable birth-and-assassination process, and prove that it has a heavy-tailed distribution. We also establish that this process is a scaling limit of a process of rumor scotching in a network, and is related to a predator-prey dynamics.},
pages = {no. 66, 2014-2030},
issn = {1083-6489},
doi = {10.1214/EJP.v13-573},
url = {http://ejp.ejpecp.org/article/view/573}}