A binary embedding of the stable line-breaking construction

Abstract

We embed Duquesne and Le Gall’s stable tree into a binary compact continuum random tree (CRT) in a way that solves an open problem posed by Goldschmidt and Haas. This CRT can be obtained by applying a recursive construction method of compact CRTs as presented in earlier work to a specific distribution of a random string of beads, i.e. a random interval equipped with a random discrete measure. We also express this CRT as a tree built by replacing all branch points of a stable tree by i.i.d. copies of a Ford CRT, each rescaled by a factor intrinsic to the stable CRT.