Probability and real trees
Subtitle: École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXV-2005
By: Steven N. Evans.
Contributors: Ecole d'été de probabilités de Saint-Flour (35th : 2005)
Series: Lecture notes in mathematics -- 1920; Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) -- 1920.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9783540747970
Subjects: Phylogeny -- Mathematical models -- Congresses; Evolutionary genetics -- Mathematical models -- Congresses; Stochastic processes -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Ecole d'été de probabilités de Saint-Flour
Description: "Random trees and tree-valued stochastic processes are of particular importance in combinatorics, computer science, phylogenetics, and mathematical population genetics. Using the framework of abstract "tree-like" metric spaces (so-called real trees) and ideas from metric geometry such as the Gromov-Hausdorff distance, Evans and his collaborators have recently pioneered an approach to studying the asymptotic behaviour of such objects when the number of vertices goes to infinity. These notes survey the relevant mathematical background and present some selected applications of the theory."--Jacket.
Notes: Notes from a series of ten lectures given at the Saint-Flour Probability Summer School, July 6-23, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.