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

Publication Date: August 12, 2009

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v14-1484

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