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On the total heights of random rooted trees

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Lajos Takacs
Lajos Takacs*
Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University
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∗Postal address: 2410 Newbury Drive, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118, USA.
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Abstract

Denote by Sn the set of all distinct rooted trees with n labeled vertices. Define τn as the total height of a tree chosen at random in the set Sn, assuming that all the possible nn–1 choices are equally probable. The total height of a tree is defined as the sum of the heights of its vertices. The height of a vertex in a rooted tree is the distance from the vertex to the root of the tree, that is, the number of edges in the path from the vertex to the root. This paper is concerned with the distribution and the moments of τn and their asymptotic behavior as n → ∞.

Keywords

RANDOM TREESTOTAL HEIGHTLIMIT DISTRIBUTION

MSC classification

Primary: 05C05: Trees
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 543 - 556
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1992 

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