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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 288 - Probability and Statistics

Loic Chaumont

Universite Paris VI

On the genealogy of conditioned Galton-Watson forests

Abstract:

We consider $k$ independent Galton-Watson random trees whose offspring distribution is in the domain of attraction of any stable law. We prove that conditionally on the total progeny being equal to $n$, when $n$ and $k$ tend towards infinity, under suitable rescaling, the associated coding random walk and height process converge in law on the Skohorod space respectively towards the ``first passage bridge" of a stable Levy process with no negative jumps and its height process.

Host: Jason Schweinsberg

November 17, 2005

9:00 AM

AP&M 6218

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