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Unimodularity for multi-type Galton-Watson trees

Statistics Theory 2013-07-24 v1 Probability Statistics Theory

Abstract

Fix nNn\in\mathbb{N}. Let Tn\mathbf{T}_n be the set of rooted trees (T,o)(T,o) whose vertices are labeled by elements of {1,...,n}\{1,...,n\}. Let ν\nu be a strongly connected multi-type Galton-Watson measure. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a measure μ\mu that is reversible for simple random walk on Tn\mathbf{T}_n and has the property that given the labels of the root and its neighbors, the descendant subtrees rooted at the neighbors of the root are independent multi-type Galton-Watson trees with conditional offspring distributions that are the same as the conditional offspring distributions of ν\nu when the types are ν\nu are ordered pairs of elements of [n][n]. If the types of ν\nu are given by the labels of vertices, then we give an explicit description of such μ\mu.

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@article{arxiv.1307.5962,
  title  = {Unimodularity for multi-type Galton-Watson trees},
  author = {Serdar Altok},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5962},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/11-BEJ416 the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)

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