Poisson point process limits in size-biased Galton-Watson trees

Abstract

Consider a critical binary continuous-time Galton-Watson tree size-biased according to the number of particles at time $t$. Decompose the population at $t$ according to the particles' degree of relationship with a distinguished particle picked purely at random from those alive at $t$. Keeping track of the times when the different families grow out of the distinguished line of descent and the related family sizes at $t$, we represent this relationship structure as a point process in a time-size plane. We study limits of these point processes in the single- and some multitype case.