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Main Authors: Fusy, Éric, Pivoteau, Carine
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06471
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author Fusy, Éric
Pivoteau, Carine
author_facet Fusy, Éric
Pivoteau, Carine
contents Leap generators have been introduced in [Duchon et al.'04] for exact-size random generation of structures in a class of the form $\mathcal{C}=\mathrm{Seq}(\mathcal{B})$ (sequence construction), in the supercritical case. We extend these generators to supercritical composition schemes $\mathcal{C}=\mathcal{A}\circ\mathcal{B}$. Compared to the sequence construction, the obtained exact-size random generator for $\mathcal{C}$ still has linear time complexity (under conditions on the sampling complexity in $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$), but perfect uniformity of the distribution is lost in general. However the distribution on $\mathcal{C}_n$, called leap distribution, is asymptotically uniform, the total variation distance from the uniform distribution being $(c+o(1))n^{-1/2}$ for an explicit constant $c$. These generators are simple to implement and can be applied to several classes of walks and trees, in particular Pólya trees. Leap generators can also be given for certain critical composition schemes, those relating planar map families, where this time the total variation distance to the uniform distribution is $\sim c\,n^{-1/3}$ for an explicit constant $c$.
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spellingShingle Leap generators for composition schemes
Fusy, Éric
Pivoteau, Carine
Combinatorics
Probability
Leap generators have been introduced in [Duchon et al.'04] for exact-size random generation of structures in a class of the form $\mathcal{C}=\mathrm{Seq}(\mathcal{B})$ (sequence construction), in the supercritical case. We extend these generators to supercritical composition schemes $\mathcal{C}=\mathcal{A}\circ\mathcal{B}$. Compared to the sequence construction, the obtained exact-size random generator for $\mathcal{C}$ still has linear time complexity (under conditions on the sampling complexity in $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$), but perfect uniformity of the distribution is lost in general. However the distribution on $\mathcal{C}_n$, called leap distribution, is asymptotically uniform, the total variation distance from the uniform distribution being $(c+o(1))n^{-1/2}$ for an explicit constant $c$. These generators are simple to implement and can be applied to several classes of walks and trees, in particular Pólya trees. Leap generators can also be given for certain critical composition schemes, those relating planar map families, where this time the total variation distance to the uniform distribution is $\sim c\,n^{-1/3}$ for an explicit constant $c$.
title Leap generators for composition schemes
topic Combinatorics
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06471