Deterministic edge weights in increasing tree families

  • Authors:
  • Markus Kuba;Stephan Wagner

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für diskrete mathematik und geometrie, technische universität wien, wiedner hauptstr. 8-10/104, 1040 wien, austria (e-mail: kuba@dmg.tuwien.ac.at);Department of mathematical sciences, stellenbosch university, private bag x1, matieland 7602, south africa (e-mail: swagner@sun.ac.za)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this work we study edge weights for two specific families of increasing trees, which include binary increasing trees and plane-oriented recursive trees as special instances, where plane-oriented recursive trees serve as a combinatorial model of scale-free random trees given by the m = 1 case of the Barabási–Albert model. An edge e = (k, l), connecting the nodes labelled k and l, respectively, in an increasing tree, is associated with the weight we = |k − l|. We are interested in the distribution of the number of edges with a fixed edge weight j in a random generalized plane-oriented recursive tree or random d-ary increasing tree. We provide exact formulas for expectation and variance and prove a normal limit law for this quantity. A combinatorial approach is also presented and applied to a related parameter, the maximum edge weight.