Beta-coalescents and continuous stable random trees

Annals of Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1835-1887

  Berestycki, Julien ^a,d   Berestycki, Nathanaël ^b   Schweinsberg, Jason ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Coalescent with multiple collisions; Frequency spectrum; Galton Watson processes; L vy processes; Lookdown construction; Multifractal spectrum; Stable continuous random trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 37449025213     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117906000001114     Document Type: Article

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