Discrete snakes with globally centered displacements

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Autores principales: Addario-Berry, Louigi, Donderwinkel, Serte, Goldschmidt, Christina, Mitchell, Rivka
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Publicado: 2025
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author Addario-Berry, Louigi
Donderwinkel, Serte
Goldschmidt, Christina
Mitchell, Rivka
author_facet Addario-Berry, Louigi
Donderwinkel, Serte
Goldschmidt, Christina
Mitchell, Rivka
contents We prove a scaling limit for globally centered discrete snakes on size-conditioned critical Bienaymé trees. More specifically, under a global finite variance condition, we prove convergence in the sense of random finite-dimensional distributions of the head of the discrete snake (suitably rescaled) to the head of the Brownian snake driven by a Brownian excursion. When the third moment of the offspring distribution is finite, we further prove uniform functional convergence under a necessary tail condition on the displacements. We also consider displacement distributions with heavier tails, for which we instead obtain convergence to a variant of the hairy snake introduced by Janson and Marckert. We further give two applications of our main result. Firstly, we obtain a scaling limit for the difference between the height process and the Łukasiewicz path of a size-conditioned critical Bienaymé tree. Secondly, we obtain a scaling limit for the difference between the height process of a size-conditioned critical Bienaymé tree and the height process of its associated looptree.
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spellingShingle Discrete snakes with globally centered displacements
Addario-Berry, Louigi
Donderwinkel, Serte
Goldschmidt, Christina
Mitchell, Rivka
Probability
60J80, 60F17, 60C05
We prove a scaling limit for globally centered discrete snakes on size-conditioned critical Bienaymé trees. More specifically, under a global finite variance condition, we prove convergence in the sense of random finite-dimensional distributions of the head of the discrete snake (suitably rescaled) to the head of the Brownian snake driven by a Brownian excursion. When the third moment of the offspring distribution is finite, we further prove uniform functional convergence under a necessary tail condition on the displacements. We also consider displacement distributions with heavier tails, for which we instead obtain convergence to a variant of the hairy snake introduced by Janson and Marckert. We further give two applications of our main result. Firstly, we obtain a scaling limit for the difference between the height process and the Łukasiewicz path of a size-conditioned critical Bienaymé tree. Secondly, we obtain a scaling limit for the difference between the height process of a size-conditioned critical Bienaymé tree and the height process of its associated looptree.
title Discrete snakes with globally centered displacements
topic Probability
60J80, 60F17, 60C05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21823