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Local properties of random mappings with exchangeable in-degrees

Part of:Limit theoremsGraph theoryCombinatorial probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Jennie C. Hansen and
Jerzy Jaworski
Jennie C. Hansen*
Affiliation:
Heriot-Watt University
Jerzy Jaworski*
Affiliation:
Adam Mickiewicz University
*
∗ Postal address: Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics and the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK. Email address: j.hansen@ma.hw.ac.uk
∗∗ Postal address: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 87, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. Email address: jaworski@amu.edu.pl
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Abstract

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In this paper we investigate the ‘local’ properties of a random mapping model, T n D̂, which maps the set {1, 2, …, n} into itself. The random mapping T n D̂ , which was introduced in a companion paper (Hansen and Jaworski (2008)), is constructed using a collection of exchangeable random variables D̂ 1, …, D̂ n which satisfy In the random digraph, G n D̂ , which represents the mapping T n D̂ , the in-degree sequence for the vertices is given by the variables D̂ 1, D̂ 2, …, D̂ n , and, in some sense, G n D̂ can be viewed as an analogue of the general independent degree models from random graph theory. By local properties we mean the distributions of random mapping characteristics related to a given vertex v of G n D̂ - for example, the numbers of predecessors and successors of v in G n D̂ . We show that the distribution of several variables associated with the local structure of G n D̂ can be expressed in terms of expectations of simple functions of D̂ 1, D̂ 2, …, D̂ n . We also consider two special examples of T n D̂ which correspond to random mappings with preferential and anti-preferential attachment, and determine, for these examples, exact and asymptotic distributions for the local structure variables considered in this paper. These distributions are also of independent interest.

Keywords

Random mappinglocal structureexchangeable in-degrees

MSC classification

Primary:60C05: Combinatorial probability
Secondary:60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems05C80: Random graphs

Information

Type
General Applied Probability
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 2008, pp. 183 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2008 

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