Condensation in subcritical Cauchy Bienaym\'e trees
Abstract
The goal of this note is to study the geometry of large size-conditioned Bienaym\'e trees whose offspring distribution is subcritical, belongs to the domain of attraction of a stable law of index and satisfies a local regularity assumption. We show that a condensation phenomenon occurs: one unique vertex of macroscopic degree emerges, and its height converges in distribution to a geometric random variable. Furthermore, the height of such trees grows logarithmically in their size. Interestingly, the behavior of subcritical Bienaym\'ee trees with is quite similar to the case , in contrast with the critical case. This completes the study of the height of heavy-tailed size-conditioned Bienaym\'e trees. Our approach is to check that a random-walk one-big-jump principle due to Armend\'ariz & Loulakis holds, by using local estimates due to Berger, combined with the previous approach to study subcritical Bienaym\'e trees with .
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@article{arxiv.2503.07530,
title = {Condensation in subcritical Cauchy Bienaym\'e trees},
author = {Igor Kortchemski and Leonard Vetter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07530},
year = {2025}
}
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Final version, to appear in ECP