Kick-off event: AI and the future of mathematics and physics - 21.10.2026
In light of recent developments, the incoming kick-off event at the Institut Henri Poincaré will take the form of a debate gathering mathematicians and theoretical physicists around the role of AI in the practice of research. Registration: indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/17376/.
Universality of fully parked trees and catalytic equations
byNicolas Curien
Abstract:We show that critical parking trees conditioned to be fully parked converge in the scaling limits towards the Brownian growth-fragmentation tree, a self-similar Markov tree different from Aldous’ Brownian tree. As a by-product of our study, we prove that positive non-linear functional equations involving a catalytic variable display a universal polynomial exponent 5/2 at their singularity, confirming a conjecture by Chapuy, Schaeffer and Drmota & Hainzl. Compared to previous analytical works on the subject, our approach is probabilistic and exploits an underlying random walk hidden in the random tree model. Joint work with Alice Contat.