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First Order Probabilities For Galton-Watson Trees

Probability 2016-12-06 v3

Abstract

In the regime of Galton-Watson trees, first order logic statements are roughly equivalent to examining the presence of specific finite subtrees. We consider the space of all trees with Poisson offspring distribution and show that such finite subtrees will be almost surely present when the tree is infinite. Introducing the notion of universal trees, we show that all first order sentences of quantifier depth kk depend only on local neighbourhoods of the root of sufficiently large radius depending on kk. We compute the probabilities of these neighbourhoods conditioned on the tree being infinite. We give an almost sure theory for infinite trees.

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@article{arxiv.1510.08832,
  title  = {First Order Probabilities For Galton-Watson Trees},
  author = {Joel Spencer and Moumanti Podder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.08832},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This is the version after our paper got accepted for publication in A Journey Through Discrete Mathematics : A Tribute to Ji\v{r}\'i Matou\v{s}ek; editors: Loebl, Martin, Nesetril, Jaroslav, Thomas, Robin; published by Springer International Publishing, Year - 2017

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