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The height of random binary unlabelled trees

Combinatorics 2008-07-16 v1 Probability

Abstract

This extended abstract is dedicated to the analysis of the height of non-plane unlabelled rooted binary trees. The height of such a tree chosen uniformly among those of size nn is proved to have a limiting theta distribution, both in a central and local sense. Moderate as well as large deviations estimates are also derived. The proofs rely on the analysis (in the complex plane) of generating functions associated with trees of bounded height.

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@article{arxiv.0807.2365,
  title  = {The height of random binary unlabelled trees},
  author = {Nicolas Broutin and Philippe Flajolet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2365},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages

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