A Thinning Analogue of de Finetti's Theorem
Probability
2007-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We consider a notion of uniform thinning for a finite sequence of random variables obtained by removing one random variable, uniformly at random. If a triangular array of random variables satisfies that the law of is obtained by uniformly thinning , then we call the array thinning-invariant. We give a representation for the Choquet simplex of all thinning-invariant triangular arrays of random variables, when all random variables take values in a compact metric space (with Borel measurable distributions). We give two applications: to long-ranged, asymmetric classical spin chains, and long-ranged, asymmetric simple exclusion processes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0406364,
title = {A Thinning Analogue of de Finetti's Theorem},
author = {Shannon Starr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0406364},
year = {2007}
}
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30 pages, 1 figure