On the equivalence of some eternal additive coalescents

Anne-Laure Basdevant

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques (2008)

  • Volume: 44, Issue: 6, page 1020-1037
  • ISSN: 0246-0203

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In this paper, we study additive coalescents. Using their representation as fragmentation processes, we prove that the law of a large class of eternal additive coalescents is absolutely continuous with respect to the law of the standard additive coalescent on any bounded time interval.

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Basdevant, Anne-Laure. "On the equivalence of some eternal additive coalescents." Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques 44.6 (2008): 1020-1037. <http://eudml.org/doc/78001>.

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