The Green diagonal and weak ascending renewal #
Splitting killed visits at weak epochs and applying the exact conditional level mean identifies the Green diagonal with the expected number of epoch heights below its level. Zero height increments remain included in this renewal function.
theorem
BGW.StableTrees.DiscreteHeightApprox.killedGapGreen_diag_eq_renewal
(μ : PMF ℕ)
(hc : IsCritical μ)
(hne : μ 1 ≠ 1)
(m : ℕ)
:
The killed-gap Green diagonal equals the weak ascending height renewal function.
theorem
BGW.StableTrees.DiscreteHeightApprox.weakLadderRenewal_lt_top
(μ : PMF ℕ)
(hc : IsCritical μ)
(hne : μ 1 ≠ 1)
(m : ℕ)
:
The weak ascending height renewal function is finite at every finite level.
The weak ascending height renewal function is increasing in its cutoff level.