Scaling limits for a family of unrooted trees
Author(s) -
Minmin Wang
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
latin american journal of probability and mathematical statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 18
ISSN - 1980-0436
DOI - 10.30757/alea.v13-37
Subject(s) - scaling , statistical physics , mathematics , physics , geometry
We introduce weights on the unrooted unlabelled plane trees as follows: let $\mu$ be a probability measure on the set of nonnegative integers whose mean is no larger than $1$; then the $\mu$-weight of a plane tree $t$ is defined as $\Pi \, \mu (degree (v) -1)$, where the product is over the set of vertices $v$ of $t$. We study the random plane tree with a fixed diameter $p$ sampled according to probabilities proportional to these $\mu$-weights and we prove that, under the assumption that the sequence of laws $\mu_p$, $p\! \geq \! 1$, belongs to the domain of attraction of an infinitely divisible law, the scaling limits of such random plane trees are random compact real trees called the unrooted Levy trees, which have been introduced in Duquense & Wang.
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