Title
The Vertical Profile of Embedded Trees.
Abstract
Consider a rooted binary tree with n nodes. Assign with the root the abscissa 0, and with the left (resp. right) child of a node of abscissa i the abscissa i - 1 (resp. i + 1). We prove that the number of binary trees of size n having exactly n(i) nodes at abiscissa i, for l <= i <= r (with n - Sigma(i)n(i)), is n(0)/n(l)n(r) ((n0 -1) (n-1 + n1)) Pi (l <= i <= r i not equal 0) ((ni-1) n(i-1) (+) n(i+1 -1)) with n(l+1) - n(r+1) - 0. The sequence (n(l),...,n(-1);n(0),...n(r)) is called the vertical profile of the tree. The vertical profile of a uniform random tree of size n is known to converge, in a certain sense and after normalization, to a ramdom mesure called the integrated superbrownian excursion, which motivates our interest in the profile. We prove similar looking formulas for other families of trees whose nodes are embedded in Z. We also refine these formulas by taking into account the number of nodes at abscissa j whose parent lies at abscissa i, and/or the number of vertices at abscissa i having a prescribed number of children at abscissa j, for all i and j. Our proofs are bijective.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
Enumeration,Embeddedtrees
Field
DocType
Volume
Random tree,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Bijection,Abscissa,Vertex (geometry),Enumeration,Binary tree,Excursion,Mathematics
Journal
19.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3.0
1077-8926
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mireille Bousquet-mélou142156.28
Guillaume Chapuy27311.25