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Left and Right Length of Paths in Binary Trees or on a Question of Knuth
Alois Panholzer
Institut f{\"u}r Diskrete Mathematik und Geometrie, Technische Universit\"at Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/104, 1040 Wien, Austria
Alois.Panholzer@tuwien.ac.at
Annals of Combinatorics 12 (4) pp.475-488 December, 2008
AMS Subject Classification: 05C05, 60F05
Abstract:
We consider extended binary trees and study the joint right and left depth of leaf $j$, where the leaves are labelled from left to right by $0,\, 1, \ldots,\, n$, and the joint right and left external pathlength of binary trees of size $n$. Under the random tree model, i.e., the Catalan model, we characterize the joint limiting distribution of the suitably scaled left depth and the difference between the right and the left depth of leaf $j$ in a random size-$n$ binary tree when $j \sim \rho n$ with $0<\rho<1$, as well as the joint limiting distribution of the suitably scaled left external pathlength and the difference between the right and the left external pathlength of a random size-$n$ binary tree.
Keywords: binary trees, imbalance, node depth

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