Stein's method and descents after riffle shuffles.
Stirling distributions and Stirling numbers of the second kind. Computational problems in statistics
Sul problema del ritorno all’equilibrio
Si considera, sul gruppo degli interi, una passeggiata aleatoria uscente dall’origine, i cui passi ammettano due soli possibili valori: uno strettamente negativo, l’altro strettamente positivo. Nel caso particolare in cui il primo di questi valori sia , si dà un’espressione esplicita per la legge del primo istante di ritorno nell’origine.
Sulla assoluta continuità di una variabile aleatoria la cui densità è limite di una successione di densità costanti a tratti
Supercritical self-avoiding walks are space-filling
In this article, we consider the following model of self-avoiding walk: the probability of a self-avoiding trajectory between two points on the boundary of a finite subdomain of is proportional to . When is supercritical (i.e. where is the connective constant of the lattice), we show that the random trajectory becomes space-filling when taking the scaling limit.
Sur quelques aspects combinatoires du calcul des probabilités
Symmetries of random discrete copulas
In this paper we analyze some properties of the discrete copulas in terms of permutations. We observe the connection between discrete copulas and the empirical copulas, and then we analyze a statistic that indicates when the discrete copula is symmetric and obtain its main statistical properties under independence. The results obtained are useful in designing a nonparametric test for symmetry of copulas.
Tessellations of random maps of arbitrary genus
We investigate Voronoi-like tessellations of bipartite quadrangulations on surfaces of arbitrary genus, by using a natural generalization of a bijection of Marcus and Schaeffer allowing one to encode such structures by labeled maps with a fixed number of faces. We investigate the scaling limits of the latter. Applications include asymptotic enumeration results for quadrangulations, and typical metric properties of randomly sampled quadrangulations. In particular, we show that scaling limits of these...
The chain records.
The combinational structure of non-homogeneous Markov chains with countable states.
The cutoff phenomenon for ergodic Markov processes.
The distribution of -ary search trees generated by van der Corput sequences.
The expected variation of random bounded integer sequences of finite length.
The generalized weighted probability measure on the symmetric group and the asymptotic behavior of the cycles
The goal of this paper is to analyse the asymptotic behaviour of the cycle process and the total number of cycles of weighted and generalized weighted random permutations which are relevant models in physics and which extend the Ewens measure. We combine tools from combinatorics and complex analysis (e.g. singularity analysis of generating functions) to prove that under some analytic conditions (on relevant generating functions) the cycle process converges to a vector of independent Poisson variables...
The graph of generating sets of an abelian group
The hyperharmonic numbers and the phratry of the coupon collector. (Les nombres hyperharmoniques et la fratrie du collectionneur de vignettes.)
The Infinite Random Order of Dimension
The intersections of random finite sets
The kernel method: a collection of examples.
The logarithmic Sobolev constant of some finite Markov chains
The logarithmic Sobolev constant is always bounded above by half the spectral gap. It is natural to ask when this inequality is an equality. We consider this question in the context of reversible Markov chains on small finite state spaces. In particular, we prove that equality holds for simple random walk on the five cycle and we discuss assorted families of chains on three and four points.