Dirichlet distribution conjecture for asymptotic sector widths of the radial spanning tree

Let mm be the number of unbounded trees, and condition on m{2,3,4,5}m\in\{2,3,4,5\}. For cyclically labeled interfaces, define the sector widths

ϕ(i+1):=θ(i+1,i+2)θ(i,i+1),\phi(i+1):=\theta(i+1,i+2)-\theta(i,i+1),

with the conventions θ(m,m+1)=θ(m,1)\theta(m,m+1)=\theta(m,1) and θ(m+1,m+2)=θ(1,2)\theta(m+1,m+2)=\theta(1,2). Thus (ϕ(1),,ϕ(m))(\phi(1),\dots,\phi(m)) records the asymptotic widths of the unbounded trees and has total width 2π2\pi. Dirichlet distribution conjecture. Conditionally on m{2,3,4,5}m\in\{2,3,4,5\}, the vector (ϕ(1),,ϕ(m))(\phi(1),\dots,\phi(m)) has a distribution close to a symmetric Dirichlet distribution of order mm on [0,2π)[0,2\pi) with parameter α1\alpha\ne 1, denoted Dir(m,[0,2π),α)\operatorname{Dir}(m,[0,2\pi),\alpha). This conjecture proposes a non-independent model for the interface directions, consistent with the preceding result that each sector has expectation 2π/m2\pi/m; the precise meaning of “close” and the value of α\alpha remain unspecified.

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François Baccelli, David Coupier and Viet Chi Tran, “Semi-infinite paths of the 2d-Radial Spanning Tree”, arXiv:1206.0088 (2012).

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