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arxiv: 0712.0556 · v1 · submitted 2007-12-04 · 🧮 math.PR · math.CO

Fragmenting random permutations

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Problem 1.5.7 from Pitman's Saint-Flour lecture notes: Does there exist for each n a fragmentation process (\Pi_{n,k}, 1 \leq k \leq n) taking values in the space of partitions of {1,2,...,n} such that \Pi_{n,k} is distributed like the partition generated by cycles of a uniform random permutation of {1,2,...,n} conditioned to have k cycles? We show that the answer is yes. We also give a partial extension to general exchangeable Gibbs partitions.

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