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标题：Block size in Geometric($p$)-biased permutations
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作者：Irina Cristali ; Vinit Ranjan ; Jake Steinberg 等
期刊名称：Electronic Communications in Probability
印刷版ISSN：1083-589X
出版年度：2018
卷号：23
DOI：10.1214/18-ECP182
语种：English
出版社：Electronic Communications in Probability
摘要：Fix a probability distribution $\mathbf p = (p_1, p_2, \ldots )$ on the positive integers. The first block in a $\mathbf p$-biased permutation can be visualized in terms of raindrops that land at each positive integer $j$ with probability $p_j$. It is the first point $K$ so that all sites in $[1,K]$ are wet and all sites in $(K,\infty )$ are dry. For the geometric distribution $p_j= p(1-p)^{j-1}$ we show that $p \log K$ converges in probability to an explicit constant as $p$ tends to 0. Additionally, we prove that if $\mathbf p$ has a stretch exponential distribution, then $K$ is infinite with positive probability.