A phase transition in the random transposition random walk

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 203-233

  Berestycki, Nathanaël ^a,b   Durrett, Rick ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulation fragmentation; Genome rearrangement; Parsimony method; Phase transition; Random graphs; Random transposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745023026     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00440-005-0479-7     Document Type: Article

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