Persisting randomness in randomly growing discrete structures: graphs and search trees

Autor: Rudolf Grübel
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, Vol Vol. 18 no. 1, Iss Analysis of Algorithms (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1365-8050
DOI: 10.46298/dmtcs.644
Popis: The successive discrete structures generated by a sequential algorithm from random input constitute a Markov chain that may exhibit long term dependence on its first few input values. Using examples from random graph theory and search algorithms we show how such persistence of randomness can be detected and quantified with techniques from discrete potential theory. We also show that this approach can be used to obtain strong limit theorems in cases where previously only distributional convergence was known.
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