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- Fill, James Allen, et al.
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Precise logarithmic asymptotics for the right tails of some limit random variables for random trees
- 2009
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 12:4, s. 403-416
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For certain random variables that arise as limits of functionals of random finite trees, we obtain precise asymptotics for the logarithm of the right-hand tail. Our results are based on the facts (i) that the random variables we study can be represented as functionals of a Brownian excursion and (ii) that a large deviation principle with good rate function is known explicitly for Brownian excursion. Examples include limit distributions of the total path length and of the Wiener index in conditioned Galton-Watson trees (also known as simply generated trees). In the case of Wiener index (where we recover results proved by Svante Janson and Philippe Chassaing by a different method) and for some other examples, a key constant is expressed as the solution to a certain optimization problem, but the constant's precise value remains unknown.
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- Ahmed, Chwas, et al.
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On the number of principal ideals in d-tonal partition monoids
- 2021
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 25:1, s. 79-113
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For a positive integer d, a non-negative integer n and a non-negative integer h <= n, we study the number C-n((d)) of principal ideals; and the number C-n,h((d)) of principal ideals generated by an element of rank h, in the d-tonal partition monoid on n elements. We compute closed forms for the first family, as partial cumulative sums of known sequences. The second gives an infinite family of new integral sequences. We discuss their connections to certain integral lattices as well as to combinatorics of partitions.
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- Diaconis, Persi, et al.
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Interval Graph Limits
- 2013
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 17:1, s. 27-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We work out a graph limit theory for dense interval graphs. The theory developed departs from the usual description of a graph limit as a symmetric function W(x, y) on the unit square, with x and y uniform on the interval (0, 1). Instead, we fix a W and change the underlying distribution of the coordinates x and y. We find choices such that our limits are continuous. Connections to random interval graphs are given, including some examples. We also show a continuity result for the chromatic number and clique number of interval graphs. Some results on uniqueness of the limit description are given for general graph limits.
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- Dress, A., et al.
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A 'Non-Additive' Characterization of p-Adic Norms
- 2011
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 15:1, s. 37-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For F a p-adic field together with a p-adic valuation, we present a new characterization for a map p: F-n -> R boolean OR {-infinity} to be a delta-adic norm on the vector space F-n. This characterization was motivated by the concept of tight maps-maps that naturally arise within the theory of valuated matroids and tight spans. As an immediate consequence, we show that the two descriptions of the affine building of SLn(F) in terms of (i) p-adic norms given by Bruhat and Tits and (ii) tight maps given by Terhalle essentially coincide. The result suggests that similar characterizations of affine buildings of other classical groups should exist, and that the theory of affine buildings may turn out as a particular case of a yet to be developed geometric theory of valuated (and delta-valuated) matroids and their tight spans providing simply-connected G-spaces for large classes of appropriately specified groups G that could serve as a basis for an affine variant of Gromov's theory.
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- Dress, Andreas, et al.
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Hereditarily Optimal Realizations of Consistent Metrics.
- 2006
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 10:1, s. 63-76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the main problems in phylogenetics is to find good approximations of metrics by weighted trees. As an aid to solving this problem, it could be tempting to consider optimal realizations of metrics—the guiding principle being that, the (necessarily unique) optimal realization of a tree metric is the weighted tree that realizes this metric. And, although optimal realizations of arbitrary metrics are, in general, not trees, but rather weighted networks, one could still hope to obtain a phylogenetically informative representation of a given metric, maybe even more informative than the best approximating tree. However, optimal realizations are not only difficult to compute, they may also be non-unique. Here we focus on one possible way out of this dilemma: hereditarily optimal realizations. These are essentially unique, and can be described in a rather explicit way. In this paper, we recall what a hereditarily optimal realization of a metric is and how it is related to the 1-skeleton of the tight span of that metric, and we investigate under what conditions it coincides with this 1-skeleton. As a consequence, we will show that hereditarily optimal realizations for consistent metrics, a large class of phylogentically relevant metrics, can be computed in a straight-forward fashion.
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- Janson, Svante, 1955-
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Sorting using complete subintervals and the maximum number of runs in a randomly evolving sequence
- 2009
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 12:4, s. 417-447
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We study the space requirements of a sorting algorithm where only items that at the end will be adjacent are kept together. This is equivalent to the following combinatorial problem: Consider a string of fixed length n that starts as a string of 0's, and then evolves by changing each 0 to 1, with the n changes done in random order. What is the maximal number of runs of 1's? We give asymptotic results for the distribution and mean. It turns out that, as in many problems involving a maximum, the maximum is asymptotically normal, with fluctuations of order n (1/2), and to the first order well approximated by the number of runs at the instance when the expectation is maximized, in this case when half the elements have changed to 1; there is also a second order term of order n (1/3). We also treat some variations, including priority queues and sock-sorting. The proofs use methods originally developed for random graphs.
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- Okoth, Isaac Owino, et al.
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Refined Enumeration of k-plane Trees and k-noncrossing Trees
- 2024
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 28:1, s. 121-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A k -plane tree is a plane tree whose vertices are assigned labels between 1 and k in such a way that the sum of the labels along any edge is no greater than k +1. These trees are known to be related to (k +1)-ary trees, and they are counted by a generalised version of the Catalan numbers. We prove a surprisingly simple refined counting formula, where we count trees with a prescribed number of labels of each kind. Several corollaries are derived from this formula, and an analogous theorem is proven for k-noncrossing trees, a similarly defined family of labelled noncrossing trees that are related to (2k + 1)-ary trees.
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- Sivertsson, Olof, et al.
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A bound on the overlap of same-sized subsets
- 2008
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Ingår i: Annals of Combinatorics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0218-0006 .- 0219-3094. ; 12:3, s. 347-352
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