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A construction of a $\beta$-coalescent via the pruning of Binary Trees

Authors :
Abraham, Romain
Delmas, Jean-François
Source :
Journal of Applied Probability 50, 3 (2013) 772-790
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

Considering a random binary tree with $n$ labelled leaves, we use a pruning procedure on this tree in order to construct a $\beta(3/2,1/2)$-coalescent process. We also use the continuous analogue of this construction, i.e. a pruning procedure on Aldous's continuum random tree, to construct a continuous state space process that has the same structure as the $\beta$-coalescent process up to some time change. These two constructions unable us to obtain results on the coalescent process such as the asymptotics on the number of coalescent events or the law of the blocks involved in the last coalescent event.

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Probability

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Journal of Applied Probability 50, 3 (2013) 772-790
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1206.5629
Document Type :
Working Paper