Tight bound of random interval packing

被引:2
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作者
Rhee, WT [1 ]
机构
[1] Ohio State Univ, Dept Management Sci, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
关键词
interval packing; wasted space; uniform distribution;
D O I
10.1017/S0021900200016685
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要
Consider n random intervals I-1, . . . , I-N chosen by selecting endpoints independently from the uniform distribution. A packing of I-1, . . . , I-N is a disjoint sub-collection of these intervals: its wasted space is the measure of the set of points not covered by the packing. We investigate the random variable W-N equal to the smallest wasted space among all packings. Coffman, Poonen and Winkler proved that EWN is of order (log N)(2)/N. We provide a sharp estimate of log P(W-N greater than or equal to t(log N)(2)/N) and log P (W-N less than or equal to t(log N)(2)/N) for all values of t.
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页码:990 / 997
页数:8
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