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Recursive functions on conditional Galton--Watson trees

Probability 2020-03-24 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

A recursive function on a tree is a function in which each leaf has a given value, and each internal node has a value equal to a function of the number of children, the values of the children, and possibly an explicitly specified random element UU. The value of the root is the key quantity of interest in general. In this first study, all node values and function values are in a finite set SS. In this note, we describe the limit behavior when the leaf values are drawn independently from a fixed distribution on SS, and the tree TnT_n is a random Galton--Watson tree of size nn.

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@article{arxiv.1805.09425,
  title  = {Recursive functions on conditional Galton--Watson trees},
  author = {Nicolas Broutin and Luc Devroye and Nicolas Fraiman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.09425},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure

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