Unimodular random trees

Itai Benjamini, Russell Lyons, Oded Schramm

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Abstract

We consider unimodular random rooted trees (URTs) and invariant forests in Cayley graphs. We show that URTs of bounded degree are the same as the law of the component of the root in an invariant percolation on a regular tree. We use this to give a new proof that URTs are sofic, a result of Elek. We show that ends of invariant forests in the hyperbolic plane converge to ideal boundary points. We also note that uniform integrability of the degree distribution of a family of finite graphs implies tightness of that family for local convergence, also known as random weak convergence.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)359-373
Number of pages15
JournalErgodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
Volume35
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Sep 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Applied Mathematics
  • General Mathematics

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