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The Poisson-Kingman distributions, $\mathrm{PK}(\rho)$, on the infinite simplex, can be constructed from a Poisson point process having intensity density $\rho$ or by taking the ranked jumps up till a specified time of a subordinator with…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Yuguang Fan Ipsen , Ross A. Maller

The two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution is the law of a sequence of decreasing nonnegative random variables with total sum one. It can be constructed from stable and Gamma subordinators with the two-parameters, $\alpha$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-15 Shui Feng , Fuqing Gao

In previous work, we constructed Fleming--Viot-type measure-valued diffusions (and diffusions on a space of interval partitions of the unit interval $[0,1]$) that are stationary with the Poisson--Dirichlet laws with parameters…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Noah Forman , Soumik Pal , Douglas Rizzolo , Matthias Winkel

The Poisson--Dirichlet distribution arises in many different areas. The parameter $\theta$ in the distribution is the scaled mutation rate of a population in the context of population genetics. The limiting case of $\theta$ approaching…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-11-12 Shui Feng , Fuqing Gao

We construct a pair of related diffusions on a space of interval partitions of the unit interval $[0,1]$ that are stationary with the Poisson-Dirichlet laws with parameters (1/2,0) and (1/2,1/2) respectively. These are two particular cases…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Noah Forman , Soumik Pal , Douglas Rizzolo , Matthias Winkel

The Pitman-Yor process is a random discrete measure. The random weights or masses follow the two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution with parameters $0<\alpha<1, \theta>-\alpha$. The parameters $\alpha$ and $\theta$ correspond to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Shui Feng , Fuqing Gao , Youzhou Zhou

When $S=(S_t)_{t\ge 0}$ is an $\alpha$-stable subordinator, the sequence of ordered jumps of $S$, up till time $1$, omitting the $r$ largest of them, and taken as proportions of their sum $^{(r)}S_t$, defines a 2-parameter distribution on…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Yuguang F. Ipsen , Ross A. Maller

We introduce diffusions on a space of interval partitions of the unit interval that are stationary with the Poisson-Dirichlet laws with parameters $(\alpha,0)$ and $(\alpha,\alpha)$. The construction has two steps. The first is a general…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Noah Forman , Soumik Pal , Douglas Rizzolo , Matthias Winkel

This work centers around results related to Proposition 21 of Pitman and Yor's (1997) paper on the two parameter Poisson Dirichlet distribution indexed by (\alpha,\theta) for 0<\alpha<1, also \alpha=0, and \theta>-\alpha, denoted…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-09 Lancelot F. James

We study mean-field inclusion processes with an additional slow phase, in which particle interactions occur at a vanishing rate proportional to the inverse system size. In the thermodynamic limit, such systems exhibit condensation at high…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Simon Gabriel

Pitman~(1999) describes a duality relationship between fragmentation and coagulation operators. An explicit relationship is described for the two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet laws, with parameters {\footnotesize $(\alpha,\theta)$} and…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Man-Wai Ho , Lancelot F. James , John W. Lau

Several results of large deviations are obtained for distributions that are associated with the Poisson--Dirichlet distribution and the Ewens sampling formula when the parameter $\theta$ approaches infinity. The motivation for these results…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Shui Feng

In this paper we give a new example of duality between fragmentation and coagulation operators. Consider the space of partitions of mass (i.e., decreasing sequences of nonnegative real numbers whose sum is 1) and the two-parameter family of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rui Dong , Christina Goldschmidt , James B. Martin

The Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP) provides a flexible Bayesian nonparametric framework for modeling grouped data with a shared yet unbounded collection of mixture components. While existing applications of the HDP predominantly focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Naiqi Li

This paper is concerned with the study of the random variable $K_n$ denoting the number of distinct elements in a random sample $(X_1, \dots, X_n)$ of exchangeable random variables driven by the two parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution,…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Emanuele Dolera , Stefano Favaro

We consider diffusion of independent molecules in an insulated Euclidean domain with unknown diffusivity parameter. At a random time and position, the molecules may bind and stop diffusing in dependence of a given `binding potential'. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Richard Nickl , Fanny Seizilles

We study a 2-parametric family of probability measures on an infinite-dimensional simplex (the Thoma simplex). These measures originate in harmonic analysis on the infinite symmetric group (S.Kerov, G.Olshanski and A.Vershik, Comptes Rendus…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-02 Grigori Olshanski

Inspired by R. Speicher's multidimensional free central limit theorem and semicircle families, we prove an infinite dimensional compound Poisson limit theorem in free probability, and define infinite dimensional compound free Poisson…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Guimei An , Mingchu Gao

We introduce a nonparametric model for inferring time-evolving, unobserved probability distributions from discrete-time data consisting of unlabelled partitions. The latent process is a two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet diffusion, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Marco Dalla Pria , Matteo Ruggiero , Dario Spanò

We construct a two-parameter family of Feller diffusions on the set of open subsets of $(0,1)$ that arise as diffusive limits of two-parameter ordered Chinese Restaurant Process up-down chains. The diffusions we construct are natural…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Kelvin Rivera-Lopez , Douglas Rizzolo