On the number of collisions in Λ-coalescents

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 12, Issue , 2007, Pages 1547-1567

  Gnedin, Alexander ^a   Yakubovich, Yuri ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Stable laws; coalescent

Indexed keywords

EID: 37449014727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v12-464     Document Type: Article

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