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Expected size of a tree in the fixed point forest

Probability 2023-06-22 v4

Abstract

We study the local limit of the fixed-point forest, a tree structure associated to a simple sorting algorithm on permutations. This local limit can be viewed as an infinite random tree that can be constructed from a Poisson point process configuration on [0,1]N[0,1]^\mathbb{N}. We generalize this random tree, and compute the expected size and expected number of leaves of a random rooted subtree in the generalized version. We also obtain bounds on the variance of the size.

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@article{arxiv.1812.05997,
  title  = {Expected size of a tree in the fixed point forest},
  author = {Samuel Regan and Erik Slivken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05997},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages

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