On a Fractional Variant of Linear Birth-Death Process

Abstract

We introduce and study a fractional variant of the linear birth-death process, namely, the generalized fractional linear birth-death process (GFLBDP) which is defined by taking the regularized Hilfer-Prabhakar derivative in the system of differential equations that governs the state probabilities of linear birth-death process. For a particular choice of parameters, the GFLBDP reduces to the fractional linear birth-death process that involves the Caputo derivative. Its time-changed representation is obtained and utilized to derive the explicit expressions of its state probabilities. The explicit expressions for its mean and variance are derived. In a particular case, it is observed that the limiting distribution of the time changing process coincides to that of an inverse stable subordinator. A relation between the extinction probability of GFLBDP and the density of inter arrival times of a generalized fractional Poisson process is obtained. Later, we study some integrals of the GFLBDP and discuss the asymptotic distributional characteristics for a particular integral process. Also, an application of the path integral at random time to a genetic population with an upper bound is discussed.