Abstract
In this paper we discuss Hausdorff and packing measures of random continuous trees called stable trees. Stable trees form a specific class of Lévy trees (introduced by Le Gall and Le Jan in [33]) that contains Aldous’s continuum random tree which corresponds to the Brownian case. We provide results for the whole stable trees and for their level sets that are the sets of points situated at a given distance from the root. We first show that there is no exact packing measure for level sets. We also prove that non-Brownian stable trees and their level sets have no exact Hausdorff measure with regularly varying gauge function, which continues previous results from [14].
Keywords
- Hausdorff measure
- Lévy trees
- Local time measure
- Mass measure
- Packing measure
- Stable trees
AMS Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 60G57, 60J80
Secondary: 28A78
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Duquesne, T. (2010). Packing and Hausdorff Measures of Stable Trees. In: Barndorff-Nielsen, O., Bertoin, J., Jacod, J., Klüppelberg, C. (eds) Lévy Matters I. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14007-5_2
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