Mass distribution exponents for growing trees

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Published 13 February 2007 IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation F David et al J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P02011 DOI 10.1088/1742-5468/2007/02/P02011

1742-5468/2007/02/P02011

Abstract

We investigate the statistics of trees grown from some initial tree by attaching links to pre-existing vertices, with attachment probabilities depending only on the valence of these vertices. We consider the asymptotic mass distribution that measures the repartition of the mass of large trees between their different subtrees. This distribution is shown to be a broad distribution and we derive explicit expressions for scaling exponents that characterize its behaviour when one subtree is much smaller than the others. We show in particular the existence of various regimes with different values of these mass distribution exponents. Our results are corroborated by a number of exact solutions for particular solvable cases, as well as by numerical simulations.

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10.1088/1742-5468/2007/02/P02011