Typical behavior of the harmonic measure in critical Galton-Watson trees
Abstract
We study the typical behavior of the harmonic measure of balls in large critical Galton-Watson trees whose offspring distribution has finite variance. The harmonic measure considered here refers to the hitting distribution of height by simple random walk on a critical Galton-Watson tree conditioned to have height greater than . We prove that, with high probability, the mass of the harmonic measure carried by a random vertex uniformly chosen from height is approximately equal to , where the constant does not depend on the offspring distribution. This universal constant is equal to the first moment of the asymptotic distribution of the conductance of size-biased Galton-Watson trees minus 1.
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@article{arxiv.1502.05584,
title = {Typical behavior of the harmonic measure in critical Galton-Watson trees},
author = {Shen Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05584},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
38 pages, 8 figures; minor changes with one reference added; to appear in the Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilit\'es et statistiques