1. The Harmonic Descent Chain
- Author
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Aldous, David J., Janson, Svante, and Li, Xiaodan
- Subjects
Mathematics - Probability ,60J10 - Abstract
The decreasing Markov chain on \{1,2,3, \ldots\} with transition probabilities $p(j,j-i) \propto 1/i$ arises as a key component of the analysis of the beta-splitting random tree model. We give a direct and almost self-contained "probability" treatment of its occupation probabilities, as a counterpart to a more sophisticated but perhaps opaque derivation using a limit continuum tree structure and Mellin transforms., Comment: 14 pages
- Published
- 2024