Decomposition of Lévy trees along their diameter (Q2357260)

The Lévy trees are random compact metric spaces which include Aldous' continuum random tree as a particular case. The authors of the present article find the distribution of the diameter (the maximal distance between the elements) of the Lévy trees and show that there exists a unique pair of elements for which this maximal distance is attained. As stated in the abstract, the authors also `prove that the law of Lévy trees conditioned to have a fixed diameter \(r\in (0,\infty)\) is obtained by glueing at their respective roots two independent size-biased Lévy trees conditioned to have height' (the maximal distance between the root and the elements of the metric space) `\(r/2\) and then by uniformly re-rooting the resulting tree; describe by a Poisson point measure the law of the subtrees that are grafted on the diameter.' For the stable Lévy trees conditioned on their total mass, the joint law of the height and the diameter is characterized; for any \(n\in\mathbb{N}\) the \(n\) terms expansions are obtained for the right tails of the laws of the height and the diameter; precise (rather than logarithmic) asymptotics are pointed out for the left tails of the laws of the height and the diameter.