The Brownian continuum random tree as the unique solution to a fixed point equation

DOI10.1214/ECP.V20-4250zbMATH Open1328.60016arXiv1504.05445OpenAlexW2115689129MaRDI QIDQ894487FDOQ894487

Christina Goldschmidt, Marie Albenque

Publication date: 1 December 2015

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

Abstract: In this note, we provide a new characterization of Aldous' Brownian continuum random tree as the unique fixed point of a certain natural operation on continuum trees (which gives rise to a recursive distributional equation). We also show that this fixed point is attractive.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.05445

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zbMATH Keywords

fixed pointBrownian continuum random treesmoothing transformrecursive distributional equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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