Electronic Communications in Probability

Protected nodes and fringe subtrees in some random trees

Abstract

We study protected nodes in various classes of random rooted trees by putting them in the general context of fringe subtrees introduced by Aldous (1991). Several types of random trees are considered: simply generated trees (or conditioned Galton-Watson trees), which includes several cases treated separately by other authors, binary search trees and random recursive trees. This gives unified and simple proofs of several earlier results, as well as new results.

Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 19 (2014), paper no. 6, 10 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 5 February 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 7 June 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465316708

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/ECP.v19-3048

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3164753

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1355.60015

Subjects
Primary: 60C05: Combinatorial probability
Secondary: 05C05: Trees

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Citation

Devroye, Luc; Janson, Svante. Protected nodes and fringe subtrees in some random trees. Electron. Commun. Probab. 19 (2014), paper no. 6, 10 pp. doi:10.1214/ECP.v19-3048. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465316708

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