Explicit laws of large numbers for random nearest-neighbour-type graphs

Authors
Citation
R. Wade, Andrew, Explicit laws of large numbers for random nearest-neighbour-type graphs, Advances in applied probability , 39(1), 2007, pp. 326-342
ISSN journal
00018678
Volume
39
Issue
1
Year of publication
2007
Pages
326 - 342
Database
ACNP
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Abstract
Under the unifying umbrella of a general result of Penrose and Yukich (Annals of Applied Probability13 (2003), 277-303) we give laws of large numbers (in the Lp sense) for the total power-weighted length of several nearest-neighbour-type graphs on random point sets in .d, d . .. Some of these results are known; some are new. We give limiting constants explicitly, where previously they have been evaluated in less generality or not at all. The graphs we consider include the k-nearest-neighbours graph, the Gabriel graph, the minimal directed spanning forest, and the on-line nearest-neighbour graph.