Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4648309 Discrete Mathematics 2012 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

By a theorem of Janson, the Wiener index of a random tree from a simply generated family of trees converges in distribution to a limit law that can be described in terms of the Brownian excursion. The family of unlabelled trees (rooted or unrooted), which is perhaps the most natural one from a graph-theoretical point of view, since isomorphisms are taken into account, is not covered directly by this theorem though. The aim of this paper is to show how one can prove the same limit law for unlabelled trees by means of generating functions and the method of moments.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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