A Note on Conditioned Galton-watson Trees
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We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence in distribution of a conditioned Galton-Watson tree to Kesten’s tree. This yields elementary proofs of Kesten’s result as well as other known results on local limit of conditioned Galton-Watson trees. We then apply this condition to get new results, in the critical and sub-critical cases, on the limit in distribution of a Galton-Watson tree conditioned on having a large number of individuals with out-degree in a given set.
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