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Sample genealogies within a Brownian excursion

  • The University of Auckland

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Abstract

In this article, we apply It\^o's excursion theory to find the joint law of
minima of a Brownian excursion conditioned to go above level $1$ over the
intervals defined by $k$ independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) points of
intersection of the excursion with level $a \in (0,1]$.
This approach offers an intuitive way to find the joint law of coalescent
times of an i.i.d. sample of k particles alive at time $a$ in Aldous' continuum
random tree of height $1$. This can be thought of as ``sampling of the limit"
of critical Galton-Watson trees conditioned to survive a large time, agreeing
with some special cases obtained in [4] and [5] which instead consider ``the
limit of sampling" from critical Galton-Watson trees.
Original languageEnglish
JournalElectronic Communications in Probability
Publication statusSubmitted - 2026

Keywords

  • Brownian excursions, critical Galton-Watson trees

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