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Coalescence in small generations for the diffusive randomly biased walk on Galton-Watson trees

Probability 2025-12-23 v4

Abstract

We investigate the range RT\mathcal{R}_T of the diffusive biased walk X\mathbb{X} on a Galton-Watson tree T\mathbb{T} in random environment, that is to say the sub-tree of T\mathbb{T} of all distinct vertices visited by this walk up to the time TT. We study the volume of the range with constraints and more precisely the number of kk-tuples (k2k\geq 2) of distinct vertices in this sub-tree, in small generations and satisfying an hereditary condition. A special attention is paid to the vertices visited during distinct excursions of X\mathbb{X} above the root of the Galton-Watson tree as we observe they give the major contribution to this range. As an application, we study the genealogy of k2k\geq 2 distinct vertices of the tree RT\mathcal{R}_T picked uniformly from those in small generations. It turns out that two or more vertices among them share a common ancestor for the last time in the remote past. We also point out an hereditary character in their genealogical tree due to the random environment.

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@article{arxiv.2301.06509,
  title  = {Coalescence in small generations for the diffusive randomly biased walk on Galton-Watson trees},
  author = {Alexis Kagan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06509},
  year   = {2025}
}

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50 pages, 4 figures