Conjecture on total internal branch length in dust-free coalescents

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Let ℓ^n:=ℓn−ℓˉn\hat \ell_n:=\ell_n-\bar \ell_n be the total internal branch length of an nn-coalescent, where ℓn\ell_n is its total length and ℓˉn\bar \ell_n is its total external branch length. For a dust-free Λ\Lambda-coalescent, as n→∞n\to\infty,

ℓ^n∼P∫2n(xμ(x)−nμ(n)),dx.\hat \ell_n \stackrel P \sim \int_2^n \left(\frac{x}{\mu(x)}-\frac{n}{\mu(n)}\right)\\,dx.

The analogous result is known for a class of coalescents containing the Bolthausen–Sznitman coalescent, and the conjecture proposes that the asymptotic law holds for all dust-free Λ\Lambda-coalescents.

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Götz Kersting and Anton Wakolbinger, “Probabilistic aspects of Λ-coalescents in equilibrium and in evolution”, arXiv:2002.05250 (2020).

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