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The cut-and-paste process

Probability 2014-09-04 v1

Abstract

We characterize the class of exchangeable Feller processes evolving on partitions with boundedly many blocks. In continuous-time, the jump measure decomposes into two parts: a σ\sigma-finite measure on stochastic matrices and a collection of nonnegative real constants. This decomposition prompts a L\'evy-It\^o representation. In discrete-time, the evolution is described more simply by a product of independent, identically distributed random matrices.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0976,
  title  = {The cut-and-paste process},
  author = {Harry Crane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0976},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-AOP922 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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