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Scaling limit of critical random trees in random environment

Probability 2023-01-30 v2

Abstract

We consider Bienaym\'e-Galton-Watson trees in random environment, where each generation kk is attributed a random offspring distribution μk\mu_k, and (μk)k0(\mu_k)_{k\geq 0} is a sequence of independent and identically distributed random probability measures. We work in the ``strictly critical'' regime where, for all kk, the average of μk\mu_k is assumed to be equal to 11 almost surely, and the variance of μk\mu_k has finite expectation. We prove that, for almost all realizations of the environment (more precisely, under some deterministic conditions that the random environment satisfies almost surely), the scaling limit of the tree in that environment, conditioned to be large, is the Brownian continuum random tree. The habitual techniques used for standard Bienaym\'e-Galton-Watson trees, or trees with exchangeable vertices, do not apply to this case. Our proof therefore provides alternative tools.

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@article{arxiv.2209.11130,
  title  = {Scaling limit of critical random trees in random environment},
  author = {Guillaume Conchon--Kerjan and Daniel Kious and Cécile Mailler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.11130},
  year   = {2023}
}