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SPDE Approximation for Random Trees

Probability 2010-08-27 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider the genealogy tree for a critical branching process conditioned on non-extinction. We enumerate vertices in each generation of the tree so that for each two generations one can define a monotone map describing the ancestor--descendant relation between their vertices. We show that under appropriate rescaling this family of monotone maps converges in distribution in a special topology to a limiting flow of discontinuous monotone maps which can be seen as a continuum tree. This flow is a solution of an SPDE with respect to a Brownian sheet.

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@article{arxiv.0909.2283,
  title  = {SPDE Approximation for Random Trees},
  author = {Yuri Bakhtin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.2283},
  year   = {2010}
}

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39 pages; 2 figure

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