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Cumulative processes in basketball games

I. Kopocińska, B. Kopociński (2006)

Applicationes Mathematicae

We assume that the current score of a basketball game can be modeled by a bivariate cumulative process based on some marked renewal process. The basic element of a game is a cycle, which is concluded whenever a team scores. This paper deals with the joint probability distribution function of this cumulative process, the process describing the host's advantage and its expected value. The practical usefulness of the model is demonstrated by analyzing the effect of small modifications of the model...

Cut-off for large sums of graphs

Bernard Ycart (2007)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

If L is the combinatorial Laplacian of a graph, exp ( - L t ) converges to a matrix with identical coefficients. The speed of convergence is measured by the maximal entropy distance. When the graph is the sum of a large number of components, a cut-off phenomenon may occur: before some instant the distance to equilibrium tends to infinity; after that instant it tends to 0 . A sufficient condition for cut-off is given, and the cut-off instant is expressed as a function of the gap and eigenvectors of components....

Cutoff for samples of Markov chains

Bernard Ycart (2010)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

We study the convergence to equilibrium of n-samples of independent Markov chains in discrete and continuous time. They are defined as Markov chains on the n-fold Cartesian product of the initial state space by itself, and they converge to the direct product of n copies of the initial stationary distribution. Sharp estimates for the convergence speed are given in terms of the spectrum of the initial chain. A cutoff phenomenon occurs in the sense that as n tends to infinity, the total variation...

Cycle structure of percolation on high-dimensional tori

Remco van der Hofstad, Artëm Sapozhnikov (2014)

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques

In the past years, many properties of the largest connected components of critical percolation on the high-dimensional torus, such as their sizes and diameter, have been established. The order of magnitude of these quantities equals the one for percolation on the complete graph or Erdős–Rényi random graph, raising the question whether the scaling limits of the largest connected components, as identified by Aldous (1997), are also equal. In this paper, we investigate the cycle structureof the largest...

Cyclic random motions in d -space with n directions

Aimé Lachal (2006)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

We study the probability distribution of the location of a particle performing a cyclic random motion in d . The particle can take n possible directions with different velocities and the changes of direction occur at random times. The speed-vectors as well as the support of the distribution form a polyhedron (the first one having constant sides and the other expanding with time t). The distribution of the location of the particle is made up of two components: a singular component (corresponding...

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