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The paperfolding sequences form an uncountable class of infinite sequences over the alphabet $\{ -1, 1 \}$ that describe the sequence of folds arising from iterated folding of a piece of paper, followed by unfolding. In this note we observe…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Jeffrey Shallit

Finding the underlying probability distributions of a set of observed sequences under the constraint that each sequence is generated i.i.d by a distinct distribution is considered. The number of distributions, and hence the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Sara Shahi , Daniela Tuninetti , Natasha Devroye

We investigate properties of the particle distribution near the tip of one-dimensional branching random walks at large times $t$, focusing on unusual realizations in which the rightmost lead particle is very far ahead of its expected…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-07 A. H. Mueller , S. Munier

Distribution of loops in a one-dimensional random walk (RW), or, equivalently, neutral segments in a sequence of positive and negative charges is important for understanding the low energy states of randomly charged polymers. We investigate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Shay Wolfling , Yacov Kantor

We study the distribution of cycle lengths in models of nonuniform random permutations with cycle weights. We identify several regimes. Depending on the weights, the length of typical cycles grows like the total number $n$ of elements, or a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-06 Volker Betz , Daniel Ueltschi , Yvan Velenik

By using the matrix formulation of the two-step approach to distributions of patterns in random sequences, recurrence and explicit formulas for the generating functions of successions in random permutations of arbitrary multisets are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Yong Kong

Consider n unit intervals, say [1,2], [3,4], ..., [2n-1,2n]. Identify their endpoints in pairs at random, with all (2n-1)!! = (2n-1) (2n-3) ... 3 1 pairings being equally likely. The result is a collection of cycles of various lengths, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicholas Pippenger

We derive out naturally some important distributions such as high order normal distributions and high order exponent distributions and the Gamma distribution from a geometrical way. Further, we obtain the exact mean-values of integral form…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Cheng-shi Liu

A different general philosophy, to be called Full Randomness (FR), for the analysis of random effects models is presented, involving a notion of reducing or preferably eliminating fixed effects, at least formally. For example, under FR…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-30 Norm Matloff

We introduce a class of stochastic integer sequences. In these sequences, every element is a sum of two previous elements, at least one of which is chosen randomly. The interplay between randomness and memory underlying these sequences…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , P. L. Krapivsky

In spatial networks vertices are arranged in some space and edges may cross. When arranging vertices in a 1-dimensional lattice edges may cross when drawn above the vertex sequence as it happens in linguistic and biological networks. Here…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Lluís Alemany-Puig , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

We study the distributions of waiting times in variations of the $q$-sooner and later waiting time problem. One variation imposes length and frequency quotas on the runs of successes and failures. Another case considers binary trials for…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Jungtaek Oh

We study from a statistical mechanics viewpoint some of the simplest mathematical objects, finite pure sets. Starting from the empty set, new generations are produced step by step, sets of the next generation being those whose elements are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Michel Bauer

In the first part we associate a periodic sequence to a partition and study the connection the distribution of elements of uniform limit of the sequences. Then some facts of statistical independence of these limits are proved

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Milan Pasteka

In the past decade, the use of ordinal patterns in the analysis of time series and dynamical systems has become an important and rich tool. Ordinal patterns (otherwise known as a permutation patterns) are found in time series by taking $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Sergi Elizalde , Megan Martinez

Consider two independent random strings having same length and taking values uniformly in a common finite alphabet. We study the order of the variance of the length of the longest common subsequences (LCS) of these strings when long blocks,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-26 S. Amsalu , C. Houdré , H. Matzinger

The distribution function of particles over clusters is proposed for a system of identical intersecting spheres, the centres of which are uniformly distributed in space. Consideration is based on the concept of the rank number of clusters,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-01 Murat Kh. Khokonov , Azamat Kh. Khokonov

In this paper, we revisit the classic problem of run generation. Run generation is the first phase of external-memory sorting, where the objective is to scan through the data, reorder elements using a small buffer of size M , and output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Michael A. Bender , Samuel McCauley , Andrew McGregor , Shikha Singh , Hoa T. Vu

The topic of this paper is the distributed and incremental generation of long executions of concurrent systems, uniformly or more generally with weights associated to elementary actions. Synchronizing sequences of letters on alphabets…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Samy Abbes

We obtain results on the limiting distribution of the six-length of a random functional graph, also called a functional digraph or random mapping, with given in-degree sequence. The six-length of a vertex $v\in V$ is defined from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Kevin Leckey , Nicholas Wormald