Asymptotic distribution for the birthday problem with multiple coincidences, via an embedding of the collision process

DOI10.1002/RSA.20591zbMATH Open1376.60017arXiv1310.7055OpenAlexW1581959878WikidataQ121640826 ScholiaQ121640826MaRDI QIDQ2811160FDOQ2811160

Richard Arratia, Skip Garibaldi, Joe Kilian

Publication date: 10 June 2016

Published in: Random Structures \& Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the random variable B(c,n), which counts the number of balls that must be thrown into n equally-sized bins in order to obtain c collisions. The asymptotic expected value of B(1,n) is the well-known $sqrtnpi/2$ appearing in the solution to the birthday problem; the limit distribution and asymptotic moments of B(1,n) are also well known. We calculate the distribution and moments of B(c,n) asymptotically as n goes to infinity and c = O(n). Our main tools are an embedding of the collision process, realizing the process as a deterministic function of the standard Poisson process, and a central limit result by Renyi.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7055

zbMATH Keywords

collisionsbirthday problemsize biasurn problemchi distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Strong limit theorems (60F15) Combinatorial probability (60C05)

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