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On intermediate levels of nested occupancy scheme in random environment generated by stick-breaking II

Probability 2020-11-25 v1

Abstract

A nested occupancy scheme in random environment is a generalization of the classical Karlin infinite balls-in-boxes occupancy scheme in random environment (with random probabilities). Unlike the Karlin scheme in which the collection of boxes is unique, there is a nested hierarchy of boxes, and the hitting probabilities of boxes are defined in terms of iterated fragmentation of a unit mass. In the present paper we assume that the random fragmentation law is given by stick-breaking in which case the infinite occupancy scheme defined by the first level boxes is known as the Bernoulli sieve. Assuming that nn balls have been thrown, denote by Kn(j)K_n(j) the number of occupied boxes in the jjth level and call the level jj intermediate if j=jnj=j_n\to\infty and jn=o(logn)j_n=o(\log n) as nn\to\infty. We prove a multidimensional central limit theorem for the vector (Kn(jnu1),,Kn(jnu)(K_n(\lfloor j_n u_1\rfloor),\ldots, K_n(\lfloor j_n u_\ell\rfloor), properly normalized and centered, as nn\to\infty, where jnj_n\to\infty and jn=o((logn)1/2)j_n=o((\log n)^{1/2}). The present paper continues the line of investigation initiated in Buraczewski, Dovgay and Iksanov [Electron. J. Probab. 25: paper no. 123, 2020] in which the occupancy of intermediate levels jnj_n\to\infty, jn=o((logn)1/3)j_n=o((\log n)^{1/3}) was analyzed.

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@article{arxiv.2011.12231,
  title  = {On intermediate levels of nested occupancy scheme in random environment generated by stick-breaking II},
  author = {Alexander Iksanov and Alexander Marynych and Igor Samoilenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.12231},
  year   = {2020}
}

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19 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2006.00590

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