Parking functions, empirical processes, and the width of rooted labeled trees
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 8 (2001) no. 1
This paper provides tight bounds for the moments of the width of rooted labeled trees with $n$ nodes, answering an open question of Odlyzko and Wilf (1987). To this aim, we use one of the many one-to-one correspondences between trees and parking functions, and also a precise coupling between parking functions and the empirical processes of mathematical statistics. Our result turns out to be a consequence of the strong convergence of empirical processes to the Brownian bridge (Komlós, Major and Tusnády, 1975).
DOI :
10.37236/1558
Classification :
05C05, 60J65, 60J80
Mots-clés : moment, Brownian excursion, empirical processes, hashing with linear probing, parking, width, rooted labelled tree
Mots-clés : moment, Brownian excursion, empirical processes, hashing with linear probing, parking, width, rooted labelled tree
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Philippe Chassaing; Jean-François Marckert. Parking functions, empirical processes, and the width of rooted labeled trees. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 8 (2001) no. 1. doi: 10.37236/1558
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