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Quadratic Galton-Watson extinction bound
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For offspring mean
μ
>
1
and variance
σ
2
, Taylor expansion at one gives
d
≤
1
−
σ
2
+
μ
2
−
μ
2
(
μ
−
1
)
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for the extinction probability
d
.
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