Scaling-limit conjecture for the unlabelled (α,γ)(\alpha,\gamma)-chain

Let 0<γα<10 < \gamma \leq \alpha < 1. Consider the unlabelled (α,γ)(\alpha,\gamma)-chain on rooted multifurcating trees with nn leaves, obtained by selecting and deleting a uniform leaf and inserting a new leaf according to the unlabelled (α,γ)(\alpha,\gamma)-growth rule. Represent its edges at scale nγn^\gamma, and view the resulting weighted trees in the Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov space of weighted R\mathbb{R}-trees. The unlabelled (α,γ)(\alpha,\gamma)-chain scaling-limit conjecture. The unlabelled (α,γ)(\alpha,\gamma)-chain with n2n^2 steps per time unit and edges scaled by nγn^\gamma has a scaling limit that is a path-continuous Markov process in the Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov space of weighted R\mathbb{R}-trees, whose stationary distribution is that of Tα,γ\mathcal{T}^{\alpha,\gamma}. The conjecture extends the finite-dimensional Wright-Fisher diffusion limit for decorated projections and the stationary Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov convergence to a dynamical continuum-tree limit; neither the asserted process-level convergence nor the required path continuity is established in the supplied text.

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Frederik Sørensen, “A down-up chain with persistent labels on multifurcating trees”, arXiv:2008.02761 (2020).

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