1. Institute of Stochastics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kaiserstr. 89, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany;2. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, IN-600 036 Chennai, India
Abstract:
This paper discusses birth and death processes that are related to the celebrated Ramanujan’s theta functions. The pertinent transient system size probabilities are calculated numerically via a truncation of continued fractions.