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On the re-rooting invariance property of Lévy trees

Thomas Duquesne, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Jean-Francois Le Gall, Université Paris-Sud


Abstract
We prove a strong form of the invariance under re-rooting of the distribution of the continuous random trees called Lévy trees. This expends previous results due to several authors.


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Pages: 317-326

Published on: August 12, 2009
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