DOAJ Open Access 2017

Asymptotics of the occupancy scheme in a random environment and its applications to tries

Silvia Businger

Abstrak

Consider $ m $ copies of an irreducible, aperiodic Markov chain $ Y $ taking values in a finite state space. The asymptotics as $ m $ tends to infinity, of the first time from which on the trajectories of the $ m $ copies differ, have been studied by Szpankowski (1991) in the setting of tries. We use a different approach and model the $ m $ trajectories by a variant of the occupancy scheme, where we consider a nested sequence of boxes. This approach will enable us to extend the result to the case when the transition probabilities are random. We moreover use the same techniques to study the asymptotics as $ m $ tends to infinity of the time up to which we have observed all the possible trajectories of $ Y $ in random and nonrandom scenery.

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Silvia Businger

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Businger, S. (2017). Asymptotics of the occupancy scheme in a random environment and its applications to tries. https://doi.org/10.23638/DMTCS-19-1-22

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Tahun Terbit
2017
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DOAJ
DOI
10.23638/DMTCS-19-1-22
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Open Access ✓