Inifinite trees and inverse Gaussian random variables (Q1576391)

The present paper extends the first author's results on modelling the total resistance of an infinite tree as a reciprocal inverse Gaussian random variable, including the case when the potential drop may be path-dependent, and the case when the tree can have both finite and infinite parts (i.e. the tree is not infinite in all directions). Section 2 exposes the relevant properties of the inverse Gaussian distributions, reciprocal inverse Gaussian distributions, and the Kirchhoff-Ohm laws. Section 3 establishes the above-mentioned main results, including a study of conditional distributions on finite trees.