Asymptotic laws for nonconservative self-similar fragmentations

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 9, Issue , 2004, Pages 575-593

  Bertoin, Jean ^a   Gnedin, Alexander V ^b  

^a University of Paris VII LPSM partially supported by ERC Starting Grant 680275 MALIG   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Power laws; Self similar fragmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644316166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v9-215     Document Type: Article

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