Normalization of the critical Bienaymé law #
Source lines 694–699 (and B13 of the inventory): for a critical offspring law μ with
μ_1 ≠ 1 (the paper's standing nondegeneracy assumption), the weights
∏_{u∈T} μ_{k_u(T)} of the finite plane trees sum to one, so bienayme μ is a probability
measure (PlaneTree.bienayme_isProbabilityMeasure). Equivalently, the critical nondegenerate
Bienaymé tree is almost surely finite (extinction).
Route: the total weight q = 𝐏_μ(univ) satisfies q ≤ 1 for every μ
(PlaneTree.bienayme_univ_le_one, by truncation in height) and, by the branching property,
q = f_μ(q) for the generating function f_μ(s) = ∑ μ_k s^k. For critical μ with
μ_1 ≠ 1, Bernoulli's inequality s^k ≥ 1 + k (s - 1), strict for k ≥ 2 and s < 1, and
∑ k μ_k = 1 show that 1 is the only fixed point of f_μ in [0, 1]. Along the way:
μ_0 ≠ 0 and μ_j ≠ 0 for some j ≥ 2.
A critical law with μ_1 ≠ 1 puts mass on some j ≥ 2.
For critical μ with μ_1 ≠ 1, the only fixed point of f_μ in [0, 1] is 1
(convexity of the generating function, f_μ(1) = 1, f_μ'(1) = 1).
A critical law with μ_1 ≠ 1 gives positive mass to 0.
The total weight q = 𝐏_μ(T finite) is a fixed point of the generating function.
Normalization (source lines 694–699, "implicitly μ_1 ≠ 1"): for a critical offspring
law with μ_1 ≠ 1, the Bienaymé weights of the finite plane trees sum to one, i.e. the
critical Bienaymé tree is almost surely finite.
Instance form of bienayme_isProbabilityMeasure, for use with Fact hypotheses.
The root degree and the conditional branching property #
Branching property, conditional form (source lines 696–698): for critical μ with
μ_1 ≠ 1 and μ_k ≠ 0, conditionally on the root having k children, the child subtrees
T_0, …, T_{k-1} are independent μ-Bienaymé trees:
𝐏_μ(T_i ∈ A_i for all i < k | k_∅ = k) = ∏_{i<k} 𝐏_μ(A_i).