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We prove that a uniform, rooted unordered binary tree with $n$ vertices has the Brownian continuum random tree as its scaling limit for the Gromov-Hausdorff topology. The limit is thus, up to a constant factor, the same as that of uniform…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-02-27 Jean-François Marckert , Grégory Miermont

We are interested in the local limits of families of random trees that satisfy the Markov branching property, which is fulfilled by a wide range of models. Loosely, this property entails that given the sizes of the sub-trees above the root,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Camille Pagnard

The $Aldous\text{-}Broder$ and $Wilson$ are two well-known algorithms to generate uniform spanning trees (USTs) based on random walks. This work studies their relationship while they construct random trees with the goal of reducing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Igor Nunes , Giulio Iacobelli , Daniel Ratton Figueiredo

We give a new, simple construction of the $\alpha$-stable tree for $\alpha \in (1,2]$. We obtain it as the closure of an increasing sequence of $\mathbb{R}$-trees inductively built by gluing together line-segments one by one. The lengths of…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Christina Goldschmidt , Bénédicte Haas

We introduce a general recursive method to construct continuum random trees (CRTs) from independent copies of a random string of beads, that is, any random interval equipped with a random discrete probability measure, and from related…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Franz Rembart , Matthias Winkel

In this note, we provide a new characterization of Aldous' Brownian continuum random tree as the unique fixed point of a certain natural operation on continuum trees (which gives rise to a recursive distributional equation). We also show…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Marie Albenque , Christina Goldschmidt

We study random two-dimensional spanning forests in the plane that can be viewed both in the discrete case and in their appropriately taken scaling limits as a uniformly chosen spanning tree with some Poissonian deletion of edges or points.…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Stéphane Benoist , Laure Dumaz , Wendelin Werner

Let $(G_n)_{n=1}^{\infty}$ be a sequence of finite graphs, and let Y_t be the length of a loop-erased random walk on G_n after t steps. We show that for a large family of sequences of finite graphs, which includes the case in which G_n is…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-30 Jason Schweinsberg

Phylogenetic trees constitute an interesting class of objects for stochastic processes due to the non-standard nature of the space they inhabit. In particular, many statistical applications require the construction of Markov processes on…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Rodrigo B. Alves , Yuri F. Saporito , Luiz M. Carvalho

We investigate the genealogical structure of general critical or subcritical continuous-state branching processes. Analogously to the coding of a discrete tree by its contour function, this genealogical structure is coded by a real-valued…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thomas Duquesne , Jean-Francois Le Gall

We show that an algorithmic construction of sequences of recursive trees leads to a direct proof of the convergence of random recursive trees in an associated Doob-Martin compactification; it also gives a representation of the limit in…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Rudolf Grübel , Igor Michailow

We prove an invariance principle for a general class of continuous time critical branching processes with finite variance (non-local) branching mechanism. We show that the genealogical trees, viewed as random compact metric measure spaces,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Emma Horton , Ellen Powell

Upon almost-every realisation of the Brownian continuum random tree (CRT), it is possible to define a canonical diffusion process or `Brownian motion'. The main result of this article establishes that the cover time of the Brownian motion…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 George Andriopoulos , David A. Croydon , Vlad Margarint , Laurent Menard

We study various models of random non-crossing configurations consisting of diagonals of convex polygons, and focus in particular on uniform dissections and non-crossing trees. For both these models, we prove convergence in distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Nicolas Curien , Igor Kortchemski

We consider the Brownian tree introduced by Aldous and the associated Q-process which consists in an infinite spine on which are grafted independent Brownian trees. We present a reversal procedure on these trees that consists in looking at…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Romain Abraham , Jean-Francois Delmas

It is well-known that the height profile of a critical conditioned Galton-Watson tree with finite offspring variance converges, after a suitable normalization, to the local time of a standard Brownian excursion. In this work, we study the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda , Svante Janson

In arXiv:1609.05666v1 [math.PR] a functional limit theorem was proved. It states that symmetric processes associated with resistance metric measure spaces converge when the underlying spaces converge with respect to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-30 George Andriopoulos

We give a unified treatment of the limit, as the size tends to infinity, of simply generated random trees, including both the well-known result in the standard case of critical Galton--Watson trees and similar but less well-known results in…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Svante Janson

Tree graphs are routinely used in statistics. When estimating a Bayesian model with a tree component, sampling the posterior remains a core difficulty. Existing Markov chain Monte Carlo methods tend to rely on local moves, often leading to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-05 Edric Tam , David B. Dunson , Leo L. Duan

Aldous, Evans and Pitman (1998) studied the behavior of the fragmentation process derived from deleting the edges of a uniform random tree on $n$ labelled vertices. In particular, they showed that, after proper rescaling, the above…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda , Cecilia Holmgren