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Parking on a random rooted binary tree

Probability 2024-11-18 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the parking process on a uniform random rooted binary tree with nn vertices. Viewing each vertex as a single parking space, a random number of cars independently arrive at and attempt to park on each vertex one at a time. If a car attempts to park on an occupied vertex, it traverses the unique path on the tree towards the root, parking at the first empty vertex it encounters. If this is not possible, the car exits the tree at the root. We shall investigate the limit of the probability of the event that all cars can park when αn\lfloor \alpha n \rfloor cars arrive, with α>0\alpha > 0. We find that there is a phase transition at αc=22\alpha_c = 2 - \sqrt{2}, with this event having positive limiting probability when α<αc\alpha < \alpha_c, and the probability tending to 0 as nn \rightarrow \infty for α>αc\alpha > \alpha_c. This is analogous to the work done by Goldschmidt and Przykucki (arXiv:1610.08786) and Goldschmidt and Chen (arXiv:1911.03816), while agreeing with the general result proven by Curien and H\'enard (arXiv:2205.15932).

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@article{arxiv.2411.10296,
  title  = {Parking on a random rooted binary tree},
  author = {Semu Serunjogi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10296},
  year   = {2024}
}

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