Random minimal directed spanning trees and Dickman-type distributions

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 691-714

  Penrose, Mathew D ^a   Wade, Andrew R ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dickman distribution; Extreme value; Poisson Dirichlet distribution; Spanning tree; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING;

DICKMAN DISTRIBUTION; EXTREME VALUE; POISSON-DIRICHLET DISTRIBUTION; SPANNING TREE; WEAK CONVERGENCE;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 7544224726     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1093962229     Document Type: Article

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