{ "id": "1606.00083", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-06-01T00:50:32.000Z", "updated": "2016-06-01T00:50:32.000Z", "title": "$k$-protected vertices in unlabeled rooted plane trees", "authors": [ "Keith Copenhaver" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We find a simple, closed formula for the proportion of vertices which are $k$-protected in all unlabeled rooted plane trees on $n$ vertices. We also find that, as $n$ goes to infinity, the average rank of a random vertex in a tree of size $n$ approaches 0.727649, and the average rank of the root of a tree of size $n$ approaches 1.62297.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-06-01T00:50:32.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05A15", "05C05", "05A16" ], "keywords": [ "unlabeled rooted plane trees", "protected vertices", "average rank", "random vertex", "approaches" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }