Preprint.

Ömer Egecioglu and Peter Cappello

A Bijection with Applications to Asymptotic Properties of Rooted Trees

Abstract. We construct a bijection between rooted trees and natural numbers based on the prime decomposition of a natural number and the rank of a prime. The bijection leads naturally to a canonical presentation of rooted trees. Based on a conjecture in additive number-theory, the bijection also provides for asymptotic distribution of rooted trees by the number and the structure of principal subtrees.

omer@cs.ucsb.edu