Continuum asymptotics for tree growth models

Abstract: We classify the forward dynamics of all (plane) tree-valued Markov chains $(T_n,n \geq 1)$ with uniform backward dynamics. Every such Markov chain is classified by a decorated planar real tree. We also show that under an inhomogeneous rescaling after trimming leaves $(T_n, n\geq 1)$ converges to a random real tree in the Gromov--Prokhorov metric. This generalises and sheds some new light on work by Evans, Gr\"ubel and Wakolbinger (2017) on the binary special case.