Random dissections and branching processes

DOI10.1017/S0305004100065324MaRDI QIDQ3811430zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. F. C. Kingman

Publication date 1988

Published in Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100065324

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic uniformityCrump-Mode-Jagers branching processKakutani dissection of the unit intervalmaximal dissectionrandom recursive constructions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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Cites work

• A general age-dependent branching process. I
• A general-age-dependent branching process. II
• A proof of Kakutani's conjecture on random subdivision of longest intervals
• Entropy and maximal spacings for random partitions
• Mean-square and almost-sure convergence of supercritical age-dependent branching processes

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• Random sequential bisection and its associated binary tree
• Weak convergence results for the Kakutani interval splitting procedure.
• A branching random walk among disasters
• Additional aspects of the non-conservative Kolmogorov-Filippov fragmentation model

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