Reduced critical processes for small populations
Let $\left\{ Z(n),n\geq 1\right\} $ be a critical Galton-Watson branching process with finite variance for the offspring size of particles. Assuming that $0 0$ or $φ(n)=o(n)$ as $n\rightarrow \infty $, we study the structure of the process $% \left\{ Z(m,n),0\leq m\leq n\right\} ,$ where $Z(m,n)$ is the number of particles in the process at moment $m\leq n$ having a positive number of descendants at moment $n$.