Local limit theory and large deviations for supercritical Branching processes

In this paper we study several aspects of the growth of a supercritical Galton-Watson process {Z_n:nge1}, and bring out some criticality phenomena determined by the Schroder constant. We develop the local limit theory of Z_n, that is, the behavior of P(Z_n=v_n) as v_n earrow infty, and use this to study conditional large deviations of {Y_{Z_n}:nge1}, where Y_n satisfies an LDP, particularly of {Z_n^{-1}Z_{n+1}:nge1} conditioned on Z_nge v_n.