Spectral asymptotics for stable trees

DOI10.1214/EJP.V15-819zbMATH Open1236.60082arXiv1006.1570OpenAlexW1977688177MaRDI QIDQ638348FDOQ638348

Authors: David A. Croydon, Ben M. Hambly 

Publication date: 9 September 2011

Published in: Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We calculate the mean and almost-sure leading order behaviour of the high frequency asymptotics of the eigenvalue counting function associated with the natural Dirichlet form on $alpha$-stable trees, which lead in turn to short-time heat kernel asymptotics for these random structures. In particular, the conclusions we obtain demonstrate that the spectral dimension of an $alpha$-stable tree is almost-surely equal to $2alpha/(2alpha-1)$, matching that of certain related discrete models. We also show that the exponent for the second term in the asymptotic expansion of the eigenvalue counting function is no greater than $1/(2alpha-1)$. To prove our results, we adapt a self-similar fractal argument previously applied to the continuum random tree, replacing the decomposition of the continuum tree at the branch point of three suitably chosen vertices with a recently developed spinal decomposition for $alpha$-stable trees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1570

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral asymptoticsstable treeself-similar decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Fractals (28A80) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Transition functions, generators and resolvents (60J35)

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