Title
Dependence Between Path-Length And Size In Random Digital Trees
Abstract
We study the size and the external path length of random tries and show that they are asymptotically independent in the asymmetric case but strongly dependent with small periodic fluctuations in the symmetric case. Such an unexpected behavior is in sharp contrast to the previously known results on random tries, that the size is totally positively correlated to the internal path length and that both tend to the same normal limit law. These two dependence examples provide concrete instances of bivariate normal distributions (as limit laws) whose components have correlation either zero or one or periodically oscillating. Moreover, the same type of behavior is also clarified for other classes of digital trees such as bucket digital trees and Patricia tries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1017/jpr.2017.56
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PROBABILITY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Random tries, covariance, total path length, Pearson's correlation coefficient, asymptotic normality, Poissonization, de-Poissonization, integral transform, contraction method
Limit of a function,Oscillation,Combinatorics,Path length,Mathematical analysis,Multivariate normal distribution,Periodic graph (geometry),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
4
0021-9002
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Fuchs1528.98
Hsien-Kuei Hwang236538.02