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Expected Coalescence Time for a Nonuniform Allocation Process

Probability 2008-11-10 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We give an asymptotic expression for the expected coalescence time for a non-uniform balls-into-boxes allocation model. Connections to coalescent processes in population biology and computer science are discussed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0809.4233,
  title  = {Expected Coalescence Time for a Nonuniform Allocation Process},
  author = {John K. McSweeney and Boris G. Pittel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4233},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

27 pages. Added references to continuous-time coalescent processes, Fixed typographical errors

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