Aldous, David The continuum random tree. II: An overview. (English) Zbl 0791.60008 Stochastic analysis, Proc. Symp., Durham/UK 1990, Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 167, 23-70 (1991). [For the entire collection see Zbl 0733.00017.][For part I see author, Ann. Probab. 19, No. 1, 1-28 (1991; Zbl 0722.60013).]This paper is concerned with models of random trees on \(n\) vertices in which the average distance between pairs of vertices grows as order \(n^{1/2}\). The author presents an extensive review on old and recent results about random trees equivalent to Galton-Watson branching processes conditioned on the total population size equal to \(n\). Such models of trees, after appropriate rescaling the edges, converge in distribution as \(n \to \infty\) to the so-called compact continuum random tree which is closely connected with the Brownian excursion and the 3- dimensional Bessel process. Limit theorems of such type are discussed in detail. Finally, the author proposes models where the limit trees obtained are considered as variants of a superprocess. [For part III see below]. Reviewer: L.Mutafchiev (Sofia) Cited in 6 ReviewsCited in 130 Documents MSC: 60C05 Combinatorial probability 05C05 Trees 60J80 Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) 05C80 Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) Keywords:limit theorems; models of random trees; Galton-Watson branching processes; Brownian excursion; Bessel process Citations:Zbl 0791.60009; Zbl 0733.00017; Zbl 0722.60013 PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{D. Aldous}, Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. None, 23--70 (1991; Zbl 0791.60008) OpenURL