Regenerative tree growth: structural results and convergence

DOI10.1214/EJP.V19-3040zbMATH Open1304.60096arXiv1207.3551OpenAlexW1974969387MaRDI QIDQ743496FDOQ743496

Matthias Winkel, Douglas Rizzolo, Jim Pitman

Publication date: 24 September 2014

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

Abstract: We introduce regenerative tree growth processes as consistent families of random trees with n labelled leaves, n>=1, with a regenerative property at branch points. This framework includes growth processes for exchangeably labelled Markov branching trees, as well as non-exchangeable models such as the alpha-theta model, the alpha-gamma model and all restricted exchangeable models previously studied. Our main structural result is a representation of the growth rule by a sigma-finite dislocation measure kappa on the set of partitions of the natural numbers extending Bertoin's notion of exchangeable dislocation measures from the setting of homogeneous fragmentations. We use this representation to establish necessary and sufficient conditions on the growth rule under which we can apply results by Haas and Miermont for unlabelled and not necessarily consistent trees to establish self-similar random trees and residual mass processes as scaling limits. While previous studies exploited some form of exchangeability, our scaling limit results here only require a regularity condition on the convergence of asymptotic frequencies under kappa, in addition to a regular variation condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3551

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zbMATH Keywords

fragmentationR-treecontinuum random treeregenerative compositionrecursive random treeMarkov branching modelself-similar treeweighted R-tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80) Self-similar stochastic processes (60G18)

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