Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (Jan 2007)

Note on the weighted internal path length of b-ary trees

  • Ludger Rüschendorf,
  • Eva-Maria Schopp

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1

Abstract

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In a recent paper Broutin and Devroye (2005) have studied the height of a class of edge-weighted random trees.This is a class of trees growing in continuous time which includes many wellknown trees as examples. In this paper we derive a limit theorem for the internal path length for this class of trees.For the proof we extend a limit theorem in Neininger and Rüschendorf (2004) to recursive sequences of random variables with continuous time parameter.