Rayleigh processes, real trees, and root growth with re-grafting

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-126

  Evans, Steven N ^a   Pitman, Jim ^a   Winter, Anita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aldous Broder algorithm; Brownian excursion; Continuum random tree; Gromov Hausdorff metric; Hausdorff metric; Piecewise deterministic Markov process; Real tree

Indexed keywords

EID: 28144433682     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00440-004-0411-6     Document Type: Article

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