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Limit theorems for random spatial drainage networks

Part of: Operations research and management science Limit theorems Graph theory Geometric probability and stochastic geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Mathew D. Penrose  and
Andrew R. Wade
Mathew D. Penrose*
Affiliation:
University of Bath
Andrew R. Wade*
Affiliation:
University of Strathclyde
*
∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. Email address: m.d.penrose@bath.ac.uk
∗∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK. Email address: andrew.wade@strath.ac.uk
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Suppose that, under the action of gravity, liquid drains through the unit d-cube via a minimal-length network of channels constrained to pass through random sites and to flow with nonnegative component in one of the canonical orthogonal basis directions of R d , d ≥ 2. The resulting network is a version of the so-called minimal directed spanning tree. We give laws of large numbers and convergence in distribution results on the large-sample asymptotic behaviour of the total power-weighted edge length of the network on uniform random points in (0, 1)d . The distributional results exhibit a weight-dependent phase transition between Gaussian and boundary-effect-derived distributions. These boundary contributions are characterized in terms of limits of the so-called on-line nearest-neighbour graph, a natural model of spatial network evolution, for which we also present some new results. Also, we give a convergence in distribution result for the length of the longest edge in the drainage network; when d = 2, the limit is expressed in terms of Dickman-type variables.

Keywords

Random spatial graphspanning treeweak convergencephase transitionnearest-neighbour graphDickman distributiondistributional fixed-point equation

MSC classification

Primary: 60D05: Geometric probability and stochastic geometry
Secondary: 60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems 90B15: Network models, stochastic 60F25: $L^p$-limit theorems 05C80: Random graphs

Information

Type
Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 659 - 688
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2010 

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