Radial Transform Extremality for the Siblings of the Coupon Collector
Abstract
In the siblings version of the coupon collector, a main collector stops when every coupon type has appeared once. Duplicates are passed successively to siblings, and denotes the number of empty spaces in the th collector's album at the main completion time. We prove finite- radial transform strengthenings of the uniform-probability extremality principle. For every , every , every positive nonuniform probability vector , and the ray from the uniform vector , the full probability generating function is strictly decreasing in for and strictly increasing in for . Thus the same full PGF has opposite radial monotonicity on the two sides of , the left side giving a radial Laplace-transform order. At the coefficient level, along every nonconstant ray from the uniform vector, uniform probabilities maximize every binomial moment of , equivalently giving a finite absolutely-monotone/binomial-transform order. The proof of the right-PGF and binomial-moment theorem is exact and finite-dimensional. It uses Poissonization, a marked Poissonized PGF identity, a normalized alternating subset expansion, and a positive-kernel radial derivative formula obtained from a local cumulative-polynomial dissipation lemma. The Laplace-transform theorem follows from a separate Gamma-mixture race representation.
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@article{arxiv.2606.31391,
title = {Radial Transform Extremality for the Siblings of the Coupon Collector},
author = {Christopher D. Long},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.31391},
year = {2026}
}
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