Tokunaga self-similarity arises naturally from time invariance

DOI10.1063/1.5029937MaRDI QIDQ4565963zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ilya Zaliapin, Yevgeniy Kovchegov

Publication date 13 June 2018

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03741

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Self-similar stochastic processes (60G18)

Abstract: The Tokunaga condition is an algebraic rule that provides a detailed description of the branching structure in a self-similar tree. Despite a solid empirical validation and practical convenience, the Tokunaga condition lacks a theoretical justification. Such a justification is suggested in this work. We define a geometric branching processes $mathcalG(s)$ that generates self-similar rooted trees. The main result establishes the equivalence between the invariance of $mathcalG(s)$ with respect to a time shift and a one-parametric version of the Tokunaga condition. In the parameter region where the process satisfies the Tokunaga condition (and hence is time invariant), $mathcalG(s)$ enjoys many of the symmetries observed in a critical binary Galton-Watson branching process and reproduce the latter for a particular parameter value.

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