A note on the scaling limits of contour functions of Galton-Watson trees

DOI10.1214/ECP.V18-2781MaRDI QIDQ743053zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hui He, Nana Luan

Publication date 22 September 2014

Published in Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1418

zbMATH Keywords

branching processesscaling limitGalton-Watson treescontour functionsLévy trees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

Abstract: Recently, Abraham and Delmas constructed the distributions of super-critical L'evy trees truncated at a fixed height by connecting super-critical L'evy trees to (sub)critical L'evy trees via a martingale transformation. A similar relationship also holds for discrete Galton-Watson trees. In this work, using the existing works on the convergence of contour functions of (sub)critical trees, we prove that the contour functions of truncated super-critical Galton-Watson trees converge weakly to the distributions constructed by Abraham and Delmas.

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