scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1114514

MaRDI QIDQ4377101zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Wayne Haga, Sinai Robins

Publication date 9 February 1998

Full work available at URL http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/

zbMATH Keywords

absorbing Markov processcharacteristic polynomialKruskal's principletransition matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

Review text

The authors analyze the card trick known as the ``Kruskal Count and show that it is a homogeneous absorbing Markov chain. They find the corresponding transition matrix and give a closed form expression of its characteristic polynomial which allows to calculate the eigenvalues in special cases by simple numerical procedures. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0872.00022].

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