## Bernoulli

• Bernoulli
• Volume 23, Number 4A (2017), 2380-2433.

### Cutting down $\mathbf{p}$-trees and inhomogeneous continuum random trees

#### Abstract

We study a fragmentation of the $\mathbf{p}$-trees of Camarri and Pitman. We give exact correspondences between the $\mathbf{p}$-trees and trees which encode the fragmentation. We then use these results to study the fragmentation of the inhomogeneous continuum random trees (scaling limits of $\mathbf{p}$-trees) and give distributional correspondences between the initial tree and the tree encoding the fragmentation. The theorems for the inhomogeneous continuum random tree extend previous results by Bertoin and Miermont about the cut tree of the Brownian continuum random tree.

#### Article information

Source
Bernoulli Volume 23, Number 4A (2017), 2380-2433.

Dates
Revised: July 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 9 May 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1494316821

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.3150/16-BEJ813

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06778245

#### Citation

Broutin, Nicolas; Wang, Minmin. Cutting down $\mathbf{p}$-trees and inhomogeneous continuum random trees. Bernoulli 23 (2017), no. 4A, 2380--2433. doi:10.3150/16-BEJ813. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1494316821

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