The purpose of this article is to survey recent results on distributional properties of random binary search trees. In particular we consider the profile and the height.

In this work, we calculate the limit distribution of the total cost incurred by splitting a tree selected at random from the set of all finite free trees. This total cost is considered to be an additive functional induced by a toll equal to the square of the size of tree. The main tools used are the recent results connecting the asymptotics of generating functions with the asymptotics of...

The Wiener index has been studied for simply generated random trees, non-plane unlabeled random trees and a huge subclass of random grid trees containing random binary search trees, random medianof-(2k+ 1) search trees, random m-ary search trees, random quadtrees, random simplex trees, etc. An important class of random grid trees for which the Wiener index was not studied so far are random digi...