Random-Bit Optimal Uniform Sampling for Rooted Planar Trees with Given Sequence of Degrees and Applications

In this paper, we redesign and simplify an algorithm due to Remy et al. for the generation of rooted planar trees that satisfies a given partition of degrees. This new version is now optimal in terms of random bit complexity, up to a multiplicative constant. We then apply a natural process “simulate-guess-and-proof” to analyze the height of a random Motzkin in function of its frequency of unary nodes. When the number of unary nodes dominate, we prove some unconventional height phenomena (i.e. outside the universal Θ( √ n) behaviour.)

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: CALDAM
• Authors: Olivier Bodini, David Julien, Philippe Marchal
• Keywords: CALDAM 2016