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Growing random uniform d-ary trees

Combinatorics 2021-05-13 v1 Probability

Abstract

Let T d (n) be the set of d-ary rooted trees with n internal nodes. We give a method to construct a sequence (t n , n \ge 0) where, for any n \ge 1, t n has the uniform distribution in T d (n), and t n is constructed from t n--1 by the addition of a new node, and a rearrangement of the structure of t n--1. This method is inspired by R{\'e}my's algorithm which does this job in the binary case, but it is different from it. This provides a method for the random generation of a uniform d-ary tree in T d (n) with a cost linear in n.

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@article{arxiv.2105.05513,
  title  = {Growing random uniform d-ary trees},
  author = {Jean-Francois Marckert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05513},
  year   = {2021}
}
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