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The coalescent of a sample from a linear-fractional branching process

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Abstract

In this article, we focus on Bienaym\'e-Galton-Watson processes with linear-fractional offspring distributions. At a fixed generation, we consider a sample of the individuals alive, drawn in two different ways: either through Bernoulli sampling, where each individual is selected independently with a given probability, or through uniform sampling, where a fixed number of individuals are chosen uniformly at random. We analyze the genealogical trees generated by the sampled individuals. In particular, we establish a relationship between the distributions of the trees resulting from the two sampling schemes.

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@article{arxiv.2506.17470,
  title  = {The coalescent of a sample from a linear-fractional branching process},
  author = {Natalia Cardona-Tobón and Sandra Palau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.17470},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages