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

Abstract

Under the unifying umbrella of a general result of Penrose and Yukich (Annals of Applied Probability 13 (2003), 277-303) we give laws of large numbers (in the L p sense) for the total power-weighted length of several nearest-neighbour-type graphs on random point sets in ℝ d , d ∈ ℕ. 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.