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Stable fluctuations of iterated perturbed random walks in intermediate generations of a general branching process tree

Consider a general branching process, a.k.a. Crump-Mode-Jagers process, generated by a perturbed random walk $η_1$, $ξ_1+η_2$, $ξ_1+ξ_2+η_3,\ldots$. Here, $(ξ_1,η_1)$, $(ξ_2, η_2),\ldots$ are independent identically distributed random vectors with arbitrarily dependent positive components. Denote by $N_j(t)$ the number of the $j$th generation individuals with birth times $\leq t$. Assume that $j=j(t)\to\infty$ and $j(t)=o(t^a)$ as $t\to\infty$ for some explicitly given $a>0$ (to be specified in the paper). The corresponding $j$th generation belongs to the set of intermediate generations. We provide sufficient conditions under which finite-dimensional distributions of the process $(N_{\lfloor j(t)u\rfloor}(t))_{u>0}$, properly normalized and centered, converge weakly to those of an integral functional of a stable Lévy process with finite mean.