## Electronic Journal of Probability

### Spectral Asymptotics for Stable Trees

#### 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 $2\alpha/(2\alpha-1)$, 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 $1/(2\alpha-1)$. 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

#### Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab. Volume 15 (2010), paper no. 57, 1772-1801.

Dates
Accepted: 14 November 2010
First available in Project Euclid: 1 June 2016

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1464819842

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/EJP.v15-819

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2738338

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1236.60082

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#### Citation

Croydon, David; Hambly, Benjamin. Spectral Asymptotics for Stable Trees. Electron. J. Probab. 15 (2010), paper no. 57, 1772--1801. doi:10.1214/EJP.v15-819. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1464819842.

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