Some aspects of additive coalescents

2003/04/24 by Jean Bertoin
Mathematics · #math.PR #msc:60K35 #msc:60G51 #msc:60G09

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published as Proceedings of the ICM, Beijing 2002, vol. 3, 15--24

arxiv created 2003/04/24 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We present some aspects of the so-called additive coalescence, with a focus on its connections with random trees, Brownian excursion, certain bridges with exchangeable increments, Lévy processes, and sticky particle systems.

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