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A note on the scaling limits of random P\'olya trees

Combinatorics 2016-11-04 v3

Abstract

Panagiotou and Stufler (arXiv:1502.07180v2) recently proved one important fact on their way to establish the scaling limits of random P\'{o}lya trees: a uniform random P\'{o}lya tree of size nn consists of a conditioned critical Galton-Watson tree CnC_n and many small forests, where with probability tending to one as nn tends to infinity, any forest Fn(v)F_n(v), that is attached to a node vv in CnC_n, is maximally of size Fn(v)=O(logn)\vert F_n(v)\vert=O(\log n). Their proof used the framework of a Boltzmann sampler and deviation inequalities. In this paper, first, we employ a unified framework in analytic combinatorics to prove this fact with additional improvements on the bound of Fn(v)\vert F_n(v)\vert, namely Fn(v)=Θ(logn)\vert F_n(v)\vert=\Theta(\log n). Second, we give a combinatorial interpretation of the rational weights of these forests and the defining substitution process in terms of automorphisms associated to a given P\'{o}lya tree. Finally, we derive the limit probability that for a random node vv the attached forest Fn(v)F_n(v) is of a given size.

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@article{arxiv.1606.08769,
  title  = {A note on the scaling limits of random P\'olya trees},
  author = {Bernhard Gittenberger and Emma Yu Jin and Michael Wallner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08769},
  year   = {2016}
}

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9 pages (double-column), 3 Figures

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