We comment on old and new results related to the destruction of a random recursive tree (RRT), in which its edges are cut one after the other in a uniform random order. In particular, we study the number of steps needed to isolate or disconnect certain distinguished vertices when the size of the tree tends to infinity. New probabilistic explanations are given in terms of the so-called cut-tree and the tree of component sizes, which both encode different aspects of the destruction process. Finally, we establish the connection to Bernoulli bond percolation on large RRT’s and present recent results on the cluster sizes in the supercritical regime.
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Baur, E., & Bertoin, J. (2014). Cutting edges at random in large recursive trees. In Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics (Vol. 100, pp. 51–76). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11292-3_3
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