Galton-Watson trees with vanishing martingale limit

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2012-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/1204.3080v1

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This supersedes an earlier paper, arXiv:1006.2315, written by a subset of the authors. Compared with the earlier version, the

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We show that an infinite Galton-Watson tree, conditioned on its martingale limit being smaller than $\eps$, agrees up to generation $K$ with a regular $\mu$-ary tree, where $\mu$ is the essential minimum of the offspring distribution and the random variable $K$ is strongly concentrated near an explicit deterministic function growing like a multiple of $\log(1/\eps)$. More precisely, we show that if $\mu\ge 2$ then with high probability as $\eps \downarrow 0$, $K$ takes exactly one or two values. This shows in particular that the conditioned trees converge to the regular $\mu$-ary tree, providing an example of entropic repulsion where the limit has vanishing entropy.

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