Asymptotics of certain coagulation-fragmentation processes and invariant poisson-dirichlet measures

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 7, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-25

  Mayer Wolf, Eddy ^a   Zeitouni, Ofer ^a   Zerner, Martin P W ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Fragmentation; Invariant measures; Partitions; Poisson Dirichlet

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012773321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v7-107     Document Type: Article

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